United States Ex Rel. Riverside Oil Co. v. Hitchcock
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The relator, plaintiff in error, filed its petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, asking for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, the.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The relator, plaintiff in error, filed its petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, asking for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, the. Secretary of the Interior, to vacate a certain order made by him .rejecting selections of land by one Clarke, and to compel the defendant to order such selections passed to patent and to cause to be prepared and presented for signature to the proper officers of the United States of America a. patent for the selected land, or for such other relief as might be proper. The court…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
We have set out in the foregoing statement of facts, at very great length, a large portion of the contents of the petition and answer in this case. It has been done for the purpose of showing by the record itself the questions of law arising therefrom. Upon a per.usal of the record it appears that those questions are not merely formal ones nor are they so plain as not to require the careful judgment of any tribunal to which they u be referred for decision,' Their solution was properly submiUw to the Land Department, which had full and complete jurisdiction over the matters arising under the…
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