Diamond Coal & Coke Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF,APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the validity of certain patents for lands entered as non-mineral, but which were known to be chiefly valuable for mineral when entered, and the right, of the Government to have the same annulled as having been fraudulently obtained, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was a suit by the United States, against an incorporated company engaged in coal mining, to regain the title to about 2,840 acres of land in Uinta County, Wyoming, theretofore patented to Thomas Sneddon and Daniel F. Harrison and by them conveyed to the coal company. The patents, thirty-four in number, were issued under the homestead law upon what are called soldiers’ additional entries. The applications for the entries were made at various dates beginning with May 1, 1899, and each application was accompanied by an affidavit, by either Sneddon or Harrison, stating that he was well,…
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