Columbia Canning Co. v. Hampton

MORROW, Circuit Judge.

The complainant alleges that on the 19th day of April, 1905, plaintiff entered upon and staked out and surveyed a piece or parcel of land on St. Mary’s Peninsula, on the north shore of Lynn Canal, in'Alaska. The land described in the complaint has for its southern boundary the meander line of the shore of Lynn Canal at high-water mark. The three other boundary lines, on the north, east, and south, are each 20 chains in length. It is alleged that at the time plaintiff entered upon said land the same was government land, unoccupied, unappropriated, and open to entry,…