United States v. Gear
Supreme Court of the United States
These two cases came up from the Circuit .Court of the United States for the. district óf Illinois, and involved the right of Gear, the defendant, to a tract of land upon which there was a lead mine.. The first was an action of trespass^twe clausum fregit on the commbn law side of the .court;, and the-second a bill in chancery.,.with a prayer for an injunction to stay waste, on the equity side.
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These two cases came up from the Circuit .Court of the United States for the. district óf Illinois, and involved the right of Gear, the defendant, to a tract of land upon which there was a lead mine.. The first was an action of trespass^twe clausum fregit on the commbn law side of the .court;, and the-second a bill in chancery.,.with a prayer for an injunction to stay waste, on the equity side. The declaration charged Gear with having broke and entered the north half section 23, township 29 north, range 1 east, and the south half of fractional section 8, township 28 north, range 1 east, both…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
From the foregoing statement of all the acts of Congress having any bearing on the subject before us, we think it obvious it was not intended to subject lead-mine lands in the districts made by the act of the ,26th June, 1834, to -sale as other public lands are sold, or to make them liable to a pre-emption by settlers.
The argument in support of a contrary conclusion is, that the reservations'in the fourth section' of that act, with the authority given to the President to sell all the' lands in the districts, any law of Congress heretofore existing to the contrary, notwithstanding, exclude…
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