Pine River Logging Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR JO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action in the nature of trover begun in the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota by the United States against the Pine Elver Logging and Improvement Company, a corporation, (hereinafter called The Logging Company,) Joel B. Bassett and William L. Bassett, copartners under the name of J. B. Bassett & Co., and John L. Pillsbury (for whom his administrators have since been substituted) and Charles…
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ERROR JO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action in the nature of trover begun in the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota by the United States against the Pine Elver Logging and Improvement Company, a corporation, (hereinafter called The Logging Company,) Joel B. Bassett and William L. Bassett, copartners under the name of J. B. Bassett & Co., and John L. Pillsbury (for whom his administrators have since been substituted) and Charles A. Smith, copartners as C. A. Smith & Co., defendants, to recover damages for an alleged wrongful entry by the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice BeowN
This case was tried before a jury upon .the theory that the defendants went far beyond the terms of their contracts with the Indians, and cut not only a large excess in quantity, but selected a quality of timber wholly unauthorized by the contracts, or by the acts of Congress, or the regulations of the President in connection therewith. The questions to be considered arise upon objections to the testimony and the instruction of the court to the jury to return a verdict for the plaintiffs.
It is conceded that the fee to the lands comprised within Indian reservations is in the United States,…
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