United States v. Holt State Bank

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in equity by the United States against the homesteaders and their successors in interest, the riparian owners of' the lands on the shores of Mud Take in Minnesota, to quiet its title to the bed of that lake and to perpetually enjoin the defendants from making any farther claim thereto.

There was in the western part of Minnesota in 1889 in townships 156, north of range 42, and 156, north of range 41, west of the Fifth Principal Meridian, a body of water called Mud Lake, which covered an area of about 4,929 acres. The Chippewa Indians were occupy*163ing that…