United States v. Diamond Coal & Coke Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming. Suit in equity by the United States against the Diamond Coal & Coke Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming. Suit in equity by the United States against the Diamond Coal & Coke Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals. Following is the opinion of the Circuit Court by Rewis, District Judge: Tlie bill charges that on January 1st, 1900, complainants were the owners of certain described lands in Uinta County, Wyoming, comprising about 2,840 acres; that all of said lands were vacant, unreserved, unappropriated, and. rough and broken in character and were then known coal lands, and were chiefly valuable as such;…
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
[1] This is a suit by the government to cancel patents issued to Thomas Sneddon and Daniel E. Harrison and their subsequent deeds to the appellee the Diamond Coal & Coke Company for about 2,840 acres of land in Uinta county, Wyo. The ground of the suit is that Sneddon and Harrison, at the instance and instigation of the company and for its benefit, fraudulently procured the patents from the United States by false affidavits and representations that the lands were nonmineral agricultural lands containing no deposits of coal, and were therefore subject to entry under the…
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