Wright-Blodgett Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the validity of certain land patents issued under the homestead laws of the United States, are stated in the opinion. When the United States brings a suit to annul a patent to land held by a vendee of the entryman, on the ground of fraud in the entryman it must prove actual notice of such fraud in said vendee.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the validity of certain land patents issued under the homestead laws of the United States, are stated in the opinion. When the United States brings a suit to annul a patent to land held by a vendee of the entryman, on the ground of fraud in the entryman it must prove actual notice of such fraud in said vendee. United States v. Clark, 200 U. S. 601; United States v. Detroit Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321. When the United States seeks to annul a patent on grounds of fraud in the entryman and notice in his…
1Opinion of the Court
M$. Justice Hughes
delivered the opinion of the court.
These five cases, althoúgh involvings separate transactions, may conveniently be considered in a single opinion. The suits were brought by the United States to annul certain land patents 1 issued under the homestead laws upon the ground that the respective entrymen had defrauded the Government in securing the patents in that they had not actually resided upon the land and cultivated it as required by the statute, the statements in their proofs upon commutation being false. Rev. Stat., § 2301. It was further averred that the Wright-Blodgett…
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