United States v. Pine River Logging & Improvement Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit: Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This wa.s a suit which was brought by the United States, the complaint containing nine counts, against the Pine Elver Logging & Improvement Company, Joel B. Bassett, William L. Bassett, John S. Pillsbury, and Charles A. Smith, the defendants in error, to recover the value of ¿2,005,921 feet of pine lumber alleged to have been wrongfully cut and removed from Indian reservations in the state of…
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In Error to the Circuit: Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. This wa.s a suit which was brought by the United States, the complaint containing nine counts, against the Pine Elver Logging & Improvement Company, Joel B. Bassett, William L. Bassett, John S. Pillsbury, and Charles A. Smith, the defendants in error, to recover the value of ¿2,005,921 feet of pine lumber alleged to have been wrongfully cut and removed from Indian reservations in the state of Minnesota. The defendants justified the cutting and removal of the lumber in question under five contracts with Indians,…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
The answer which was filed by the Pine River Logging & Improvement Company (hereinafter termed the “Logging Company”) admitted, in substance, that under and by virtue of the three contracts between itself and Indians, which are referred to in the foregoing statement, it had received into its possession, and had converted into lumber, and ultimately sold, an amount of pine saw logs cut upon Indian reservations, which had yielded in the aggregate 13,463,400 feet of lumber, board measure.. The defendants Joel B. Bassett and William L. Bassett likewise admitted, in substance, that under the two…
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