Portsmouth Harbor Land & Hotel Co. v. United States

Campbell, Ohief Justice,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case is before the court upon the facts. It has been decided that the amended petition- states a cause of action. Portsmouth Harbor Land & Hotel Company case, 260 U. S. 327. It is there stated that “ similar claims in respect of the same land based upon earlier acts of the Government have been made before and have been denied,” citing the Peabody case, 231 U. S. 530, and the Portsmouth Harbor Land & Hotel Company case, 250 U. S. 1. The earlier of these suits was brought in March, 1905; the next was brought in June, 1915; and the…