United States v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Chas. E. Wolverton, Judge. Action by the United States against Williard N. Jones. Judgment for defendant on the pleadings ([D. C.] 232 Fed. 218), and the government brings error. The United States brought action against the defendant, Jones, for damages for alleged fraud and deceit committed by Jones in securing the issuance of patents to certain lands within the Siletz reservation in Oregon.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Chas. E. Wolverton, Judge. Action by the United States against Williard N. Jones. Judgment for defendant on the pleadings ([D. C.] 232 Fed. 218), and the government brings error. The United States brought action against the defendant, Jones, for damages for alleged fraud and deceit committed by Jones in securing the issuance of patents to certain lands within the Siletz reservation in Oregon. The substance of the complaint is that between August, 1900, and February, 1901, Jones, intending to defraud the United…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The entries described in the complaint were made under an act of Congress (28 St. 286, 326) and the amendments thereto (31 St. 179, 740) requiring, among other things, that three years’ actual residence on the land “shall be established by such evidence as is now required in homestead proofs as a prerequisite to title or patent.” But the land department of the United States, acting under what is now conceded to have been a mistake of law, permitted eight of the entrymen to make proof of residences of from one to one and one-half years, respectively, and to…
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