United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas. This is a suit to avoid 44 patents issued under the stone and timber act of June 3, 1878, c. 151, 20 Stat. 89 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901. p. 1545], and all conveyances of the patented lands or of the timber upon them. The patentees and their immediate and remote grantees are defendants and appellees.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas. This is a suit to avoid 44 patents issued under the stone and timber act of June 3, 1878, c. 151, 20 Stat. 89 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901. p. 1545], and all conveyances of the patented lands or of the timber upon them. The patentees and their immediate and remote grantees are defendants and appellees. The suit was commenced on April 5, 1902. The United States alleged in its amended bill that each of the patentees agreed before entering the land that the entry should be made for the Martin-Alexander Lumber…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
This is a suit in equity to enforce a forfeiture of the purchase price which the United States has received for certain of its lands, and to avoid the patents which constituted the consideration for the payment of this price. The act of June 3, 1878, c. 151, 20 Stat. 89 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1545], provides that upon certain conditions a citizen of the United States may purchase not exceeding *672160 acres of certain lands of the United States, which are valuable chiefly for timber and are unfit for cultivation. One of the conditions of this purchase is that the applicant shall file with…
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