United States v. Payette Lumber & Mfg. Co.
District Court, D. Idaho
In Equity. Consolidated suits by the United States against the Payette Rumber & Manufacturing Company, John A. Benson, Joseph C. Campbell, R. M. Cobban, E. B. Weirick, and E. B. Weirick, trustee, and by Mollie Conklin against R. M. Cobban, E. B. Weirick, individually and as trustee, Payette Lumber & Manufacturing Company, and others. On final hearing. Decree for defendants m first suit, and for complainant in second.
1Opinion of the Court
DIETRICH, District Judge.
The United States and Moliie Conklin bring separate actions exhibiting the same general controversy, and involving the same general state oí facts. The suits were consolidated for trial, and have now7 been submitted together. There is great similarity in the averments of the two bills, but the prayers are wholly different; the demand being, in the one case, that the United States be adjudged the true owner of 3,767 acres of timber lands situate in Boise county, Idaho, and in the other that Moliie Conklin be decreed an undivided half interest in the same land. A…
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