Northern Lumber Co. v. O'Brien

LOCHREN, District Judge.

This cause came on for final hearing June 15, 1903, upon the bill, the answer of defendants William O’Brien, Albert J. Rammers, and George A. Rammers, and the stipulation of facts on file; the complainant appearing by James B. Kerr, its solicitor, and the answering defendants by J. N. Searles, their solicitor. The defendant Mary E. Coffin, though duly served with the subpoena on the 3d day of January, 1903, has never appeared in the suit, and is in default.

From the admissions in the pleadings and the stipulated facts it appears that by an act of Congress of May 5, 1864…