United States v. Coos Bay Wagon Road Co.

BELLINGER, District Judge.

This is a suit by the United States to cancel patents heretofore issued for lands alleged to have been erroneously patented under a grant for a wagon road from Coos Bay to Roseburg, in this state, and to recover their value where such lands have been sold by the defendant company. It is claimed that the lands in question are outside the indemnity limits of the grant, and are therefore not subject to it.- A further object of the suit is to cancel a patent issued under the grant to lands occupied by a homesteader, one Samuel C. Braden, whose settlement was begun in…