United States Sugar Co. v. Henderson

The original bill in this case, filed December 31, 1908, seeks to have the heirs of John A. Hen*693derson decreed to hold the title to a large tract of lands in the Everglades, in trust for the United States Sugar Company, and is based upon an alleged transfer by the said Henderson of a certificate dated November 16, 1897, by L. B. Wombwell,' Commissioner of Agriculture, and a trustee of the Internal Improvement Fund, to the effect that the said trustees had sold the said lands then unpatented to the said Henderson and had by unanimous resolution ordered that upon the return of the certificate…