United States v. American Lumber Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
Bill in equity to cancel, set aside, and have decreed null and void certain patents issued by the United States to all the lands set forth and described in the bill. A plea in bar was filed by the defendants setting up the question of the statute of limitations under the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1099). The complainant answered the plea in bar, to which answer the defendants excepted for impertinency.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, District Judge.
This case comes up on an exception taken by the defendants to the amended answer of the complainant filed by the latter to the defendants’ plea in bar to the bill. The bill is filed to cancel, set aside, and have decreed null and void the patents issued by the United States to all the lands set forth and described in the bill. The plea sets up the statute of limitations as contained in an act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1099), which provides that suits by the United States to annul and vacate any patent to timber land issued by the United States prior to the 3d day of…
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