United States v. Minor
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE- OIRCUÍT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE. DISTRICT OF. CALIFORNIA. ■This1 was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for . the District of ■ California, dismissing the bill of the- United States on demurrer. The object of the bill was jfco..set aside and annul a patent issued by. the United States to Minor, on January 5,1876, for the northwest quarter of Section 18, Township 6, North Range ’2, East of the Humboldt Meridian.
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APPEAL PROM THE- OIRCUÍT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE. DISTRICT OF. CALIFORNIA. ■This1 was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for . the District of ■ California, dismissing the bill of the- United States on demurrer. The object of the bill was jfco..set aside and annul a patent issued by. the United States to Minor, on January 5,1876, for the northwest quarter of Section 18, Township 6, North Range ’2, East of the Humboldt Meridian. The bill as originally.'filed made in substance the following allegations: That said Minor, on the 23d day of October, 1871,• filed the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.- Justioe MilleR
delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the facts in the foregoing language, he continued:
As regards -the last of these questions, it does not present any such well-defined point of law as can be certified to this-court for an answer. It merely presents the whole case without showing a distinct point in regard to which the judges were opposed in opinion. United States v. Waddell, 112 U. S. 76. But, as it must be answered by the action of the court in affirming or reversing the decree, this is immaterial.
With regard to the fourth, fifth and sixth questions, we have…
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