United States v. Exploration Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado
In Equity. Suit by the United States against the Exploration Company, Limited, and others. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, District Judge.
The bill was filed on March 3rd, 1911. Its single purpose is to obtain a decree vacating and annulling nine patents issued by complainants to nine different persons, conveying in the aggregate eleven hundred and twenty (1,120) acres of coal lands theretofore belonging to the United States. Six of these patents, as shown by the bill, bear date October 16th, 1902, and three of them September 6th, 1902.
The bill charges that the Exploration Company, an English corporation, employed persons having statutory qualifications to make entries,to enter the lands in question for its…
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