Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Givens v. Work
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 1, 1926No. 4442PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
Appellant, plaintiff below, filed a petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Interior to issue her a patent for certain lands located in the state of California.
It appears that the land in question was granted to the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company by the Act of July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 292; It was also embraced within a grant to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company under the Act of March 3, 1871, 16 Stat. 573; Subsequently, by decree of court, it was excluded from the latter grant by…
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