Eastern Oregon Land Co. v. Willow River Land & Irrigation Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit (District) Court of the United States for the District of Oregon'; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Suit in equity by the Eastern Oregon Land Company against the Willow River Land & Irrigation Company. Decree for defendant (187 Fed. 466), and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the Circuit (District) Court of the United States for the District of Oregon'; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Suit in equity by the Eastern Oregon Land Company against the Willow River Land & Irrigation Company. Decree for defendant (187 Fed. 466), and complainant appeals. Suit for an injunction to restrain appellee, the Willow River Land & Irrigation Company, from constructing a dam for a reservoir in the canyon of Willow creek, in Malheur county, Or., upon lands claimed by the appellant, from flooding certain adjoining lands of appellant with the waters of such reservoir, and from…
1ConcurrenceRoss, Circuit Judge
In the case of Roberts v. Southern Pacific Co. (C. C.) 186 Fed. 934, I had occasion to say:
“Can a citizen of the United States, or one having declared his intention to become such, lawfully enter upon and claim as mineral ground land theretofore patented by the government to a railroad company .under a congressional grant; such patents, after describing the land thereby conveyed, containing the clause: ‘Yet excluding and excepting “all mineral lands,” should any such be found in the tracts aforesaid. But this exclusion and exception according to the terms of the statute, shall not be…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Roberts v. Southern Pac. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern California · 1911