United States v. Southern Colorado Coal & Town Co.

McCrary, Circuit Judge.

The important allegation of the bill is, that the patentees named in the patents sought to be set aside—sixty-one in number—as well as the witnesses by whom proof of pre-emption purports to have been made, were all fictitious persons,'having no existence in fact. It is averred that the pre-emption papers, together with the signatures thereto, were fraudulently manufactured by certain conspirators named, or other persons unknown, for the purpose of cheating and defrauding the complainant out of its title to the lands in question. In other words, the contention of the…