Hale v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
On the claimants’ Appeals. The Reporters’ statement of the case : The court below did not find the facts in this case according to its ordinary practice, inasmuch as the' statute conferring jurisdiction provided that suits brought under it should “ he conducted” “ according to the rules and principles of equity practice and jurisdiction in the other courts of the United States.”
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On the claimants’ Appeals. The Reporters’ statement of the case : The court below did not find the facts in this case according to its ordinary practice, inasmuch as the' statute conferring jurisdiction provided that suits brought under it should “ he conducted” “ according to the rules and principles of equity practice and jurisdiction in the other courts of the United States.” Nevertheless the facts deduced by both courts from the voluminous evidence in the case are apparently the same, and the only questions of law passed upon by the two courts are substantially identical. For a more…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The title to a well-known watering place in the State of Arkansas, called the Hot Springs, now located in Hot Springs County, has been contested by a number of claimants for nearly half a century. These springs are situated in a narrow valley or ravine between two rocky ridges in one of the lateral ranges of tlie Ozark Mountains, about sixty miles to the westward of Little Bock. Though not easily accessible, and in a district of country claimed by the Indians until after the treaty made with the Quapaws in 1818, they were considerably frequented by invalids and others as early as 1810 or 1812…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Bagnell v. BroderickSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
- Stoddard v. ChambersSupreme Court of the United States · 1844
- Rector v. AshleySupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Barry v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1845
- MacKay v. EastonSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Rice v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Rice v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1886
- Taylor v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1889