English v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether a cause of action is stated by a complaint in an action brought by the United States, which alleges that the defendants in the action unlawfully and without the license of the plaintiff entered upon nonmineral vacant public lands of the United States in the state of Oregon, the said lands not being within any mineral dis*626trict of the United States, and cut and removed therefrom 1,684 cords of wood, of the value of $842, and carried and conveyed said wood to the smelter of the defendants at Sumpter, Or., and there used it in…