Frick v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Second Division of the Northern District of California; Wm. C. Van Fleet, Judge. Suit by the United States against W. P. Frick and another. Decree for the United States, and defendant Frick appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
The United States brought this suit to cancel a patent for certain land issued in April, 1908, to B. C. Robertson, for forfeiture of certain money paid by Robertson to the United Slates, and for other proper relief. The land was entered under application by Robertson made in August, 1907, to purchase^ as timber land, under the act of Congress approved June 3, 1878. The ground of suit is fraud alleged to consist of false representations made by Robertson in the application and affidavit accompanying the same, and by Frick and Robertson in their depositions before the land…
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