Wyoming v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. Until approval by the Secretary of the Interior, no title, legal or equitable, vests in the State under a lieu or ex-, change selection application.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. Until approval by the Secretary of the Interior, no title, legal or equitable, vests in the State under a lieu or ex-, change selection application. Cosmos Exploration Co. v. Gray Eagle Oil Co., 190 U. S. 301; State v. Hyde., 88 Oregon, 1,15,16; Wisconsin Central R. R. Co• V* Price County, 133 U. S. 496, 511, 512; Buena Vista Land Co. v. Honolulu Oil Co., 166 California, 71; Roberts v. Gebhart, 104 California, 67, 69-71; Baker v. Jamison, 54 Minnesota, 17, 27,28. In those cases where it is held…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
delivered the opinion of the court..
This is a Suit'by the United States to establish . title in it to eighty acres of land and to the proceeds of oil taken therefrom. The District Court rendered a decree dismissing the bill on the merits, which the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, 262, Fed. Rep. 675, and the defendants bring the case here.
One of the defendants, the State of Wyoming, 1 claims qnder a lieu selection, made in 1912, and the other defendants under a lease from the State, made in 1916. It is against the selection and the lease that the United States seeks to establish title.
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