United States v. Rossi
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Central Division of the District of Idaho. This was an action brought by the United States in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Idaho to recover the sum of $155,760, the alleged value of 7,778,000 feet of lumber claimed by the United States to have been unlawfully cut from the public domain by the defendants in error in the years 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903, manufactured by them into lumber,…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Central Division of the District of Idaho. This was an action brought by the United States in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Idaho to recover the sum of $155,760, the alleged value of 7,778,000 feet of lumber claimed by the United States to have been unlawfully cut from the public domain by the defendants in error in the years 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903, manufactured by them into lumber, and converted to their own use. Judgment is also asked for the sum of $136, expended in the investigation of the trespass.…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The assignments of error relate to the action of the trial court in three particulars, mainly: (1) In admitting certain evidence as to the character of the land in question; (2) error in instructing the jury; and (3) in refusing to give certain instructions requested by the United States Attorney. The evidence objected to consisted of the testimony of one W. C. Tatro to the effect that between the years 1870 and 1882 he furnished supplies to miners along Fifer creek, one of the locations mentioned in the complaint from which timber was cut; also certified copies of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. Basic Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1903
3Cited by6 opinions
- United States v. Barber Lumber Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Idaho · 1908
- Morgan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
- Anderson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1907
- United States v. EdgarDistrict Court, D. Montana · 1905
- United States v. PlowmanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1907
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