Union Coal & Coke Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District .of Colorado; Jacob Trieber, Judge. Action by the United States against the Union Coal & Coke Company. Judgment for the United States, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
CARLAND Circuit Judge.
This is an action, by the United States to recover from the Coal Company the value of certain coal lands situated in Colorado, to which it is alleged the Coal Company fraudulently obtained title by conspiring with certain individuals to make coal land entries for its benefit, when it had already received the benefit of sections 2347-2351, R. S. U. S..(Comp. St. 1916, §§ 4659-4663), authorizing the disposal of public coal lands.
We agree with the trial court that the undisputed evidence showed that coal land entry No. 313, made February 3, 1903, in the name of William F.…
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