Stone v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This action was brought in the District Court of the United States for the District of Washington, Eastern Division, to recover the reasonable value of certain timber and railroad ties manufactured from trees alleged to have been unlawfully cut by the defendant Stone from certain lands in Idaho of which, it was averred, the. United States was the owner.
The answer put the United States upon proof of all the material allegations of the complaint.
But the defendant made two special defences —
1. That at a term of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, held in April, 1891, the…
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