United States v. Edmondston
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. This was an appeal from a-judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the appellee and against the United States for $200, being the amount he was overcharged in the purchase of a quarter section of land. The evidence disclosed, the following facts: The claimant on March 11, 1891, filed in the local, land ■office at Ashland, Wis., a statement, under the preemption laws, of his intention to preempt a tract of 160 acres.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. This was an appeal from a-judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the appellee and against the United States for $200, being the amount he was overcharged in the purchase of a quarter section of land. The evidence disclosed, the following facts: The claimant on March 11, 1891, filed in the local, land ■office at Ashland, Wis., a statement, under the preemption laws, of his intention to preempt a tract of 160 acres. On September 16, 1891, he gave public notice, as required by law, of his purpose to make final proof, ¿nd, in pursuance of such notice,' on…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice BREwee,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court..On June 16, 1880, an act ivas passed, 21 Stat. 287, c. 244, in section 2 of which is the following clause':
“ And in all cases where parties have paid double minimum price for land which has afterwards been found not to be within the limits of a railroad land grant, the excess of oné dollar and twenty-five cents per acre shall, in like manner, be repaid to the purchaser thereof, or to his heirs or assigns.”
Another act passed the day before, June 15, 1880,' 21 Stat. 237, c. 227, contained this provision:
“ The price…
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