Union Naval Stores Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH' CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the liability of one who improperly converted turpentine and rosin from Government lands, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
This was an action by the United States against the Union Naval Stores Company for the conversion during the years 1904 and 1905 of spirits of turpentine and rosin alleged to have been taken by defendant from certain Government lands in the County of Mobile, in the State of Alabama, known as the Freeland Homestead, and thus and otherwise more particularly described in the complaint.
The facts, as they appeared at the trial, were as follows: Freeland had made an application for a homestead entry under § 2289, Rev/ Stat., but never perfected it. Being the owner of other lands in the same…
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