Washington Securities Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS PQR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the validity of patents for , lands issued under the .homestead law and claimed by the Government to have been fraudulently obtained because the lands were known to. be valuable for coal at the time, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was a suit to cancel four patents issued under the commutation provision of the homestead law and embracing a. full section of land in King County, Washington. The bill charged that the patents were fraudulently procured by falsely representing to the land officers that the lands were agricultural in character, and therefore subject to homestead entry, when in truth they were at the time known to be valuable coal lands and therefore excepted from the operation of the homestead law. After the patents were issued the lands were conveyed to the appellant, and there was a further charge that…
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