United States v. Coos Bay Wagon-Road Co.

BELLINGER, District Judge.

This is a suit to cancel certain patents to lands under a grant by the United States, and for other relief. The facts in the case, as appears from the bill of complaint, are as follows: On the Jd day of March, 1869, the congress of the United States passed an act granting to the state of Oregon, to aid in the construction of a military wagon road from the navigable waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg, in the state of Oregon, the alternate sections of public laud, designated by odd numbers, to the extent of three sections in width, on each side of said road; and said act…