Camfield v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of tlie United States for the District of Colorado. This was a suit by the United. States against Daniel A. Oam-lield and William Drury, under the act of February 25, 1885 (23 Stat. e. 149), to compel the removal of an inclosure of public land. The circuit court entered a decree for the complainant, after ¡ms-raining exceptions to the answer as insufficient. 59 Fed. 5<>2. Defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of tlie United States for the District of Colorado. This was a suit by the United. States against Daniel A. Oam-lield and William Drury, under the act of February 25, 1885 (23 Stat. e. 149), to compel the removal of an inclosure of public land. The circuit court entered a decree for the complainant, after ¡ms-raining exceptions to the answer as insufficient. 59 Fed. 5<>2. Defendants appeal. This was a bill filed by the United States against Daniel A. Oamfield and William Drury, tlie appellants, in the circuit court of the United States for the district of…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
Section 1 of the act of February 25,1885, supra, declared, in effect, that it should thereafter be deemed unlawful for any person, association, or corporation to make or maintain an inclosure which embraced within its limits any public land of the United States, *104to which, the person making or maintaining the inclosure had no claim or color of title, and to which he asserted no right under a claim made in good faith, with a view to the entry thereof at the proper land office under the general laws of the United States. The. statute in question is general in its terms, and it contains no…
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