Mullan v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. This was a bill in equity to annul and set aside a listing of coal lands to tbe State of California, and patents of the same granted by the State. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.- Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury on behalf of the United States stated that this suit, although prosecuted in the name of the United States, was prosecuted by private parties and at private cost.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. This was a bill in equity to annul and set aside a listing of coal lands to tbe State of California, and patents of the same granted by the State. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.- Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury on behalf of the United States stated that this suit, although prosecuted in the name of the United States, was prosecuted by private parties and at private cost. Mr. Maury filed a brief on behalf of appellee ; and also showed to the court the authority of the Attorney General for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This was a suit brought by the United States to vacate and annul the title of John Mullan and Francis Avery to the N. §, sec. 8 T. 1 N., R. 1 E., Mount Diablo meridian, listed by the Secretary of the Interior on the 3d of January, 1871, to the State of California as a school indemnity selection, on the ground that when the selection was made and when it was listed the land was coal land, and so known to be, both by the officers of the State who made the selection, and by Mullan and Avery when they afterwards acquired title from the State. The facts are these:
The land in question lay in the…
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