Legal Opinion
United States v. Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 11, 1939No. 1686PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRATTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit in equity filed by the United States in its own right and as guardian of certain Indian wards to cancel enumerated instruments of record, remove clouds from title, and quiet title to eleven separate tracts of land situated in Box Elder County, Utah.
The General Homestead Act, approved May 20, 1862, 12 Stat. 392, provides that any person who is the head of a family or has reached the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States or has filed his declaration of intention to become such citizen, shall be entitled to enter and to take as a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- United States v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Marquez v. FrisbieSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- United States v. InsleySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Hemmer v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
- Dickson v. Luck Land Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1917
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. IrelanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1941
- Bowles v. Beatrice Creamery Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1944
- British America Assur. Co. v. BowenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1943
- Blackner v. McDermottCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1949
- Commercial Standard Insurance Company v. Universal UnderwritersCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1960
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