United States v. Bucher

FARIS, District Judge.

These are suits in equity to cancel certain patents heretofore issued by plaintiff to defendants for certain lands, as homesteads and grazing lands appurtenant thereto, on the ground that fraud was perpetrated by defendants in making final proof as to the requisite residence on such homesteads. On a trial below the cases were consolidated for reasons obvious from the facts. The findings and decrees went against the government, dismissing its bills, and these appeals were taken in the usual way.

On the 13th day of August, 1913, defendant Eugenia Bucher, then unmarried and…