United States v. Edwards

Fifteen suits have been brought by the United States to set aside the patents to as many different tracts of land in the county of Haiper, in this state. The grounds alleged in each bill are fraud in obtaining the patent. One party is a defendant in all the cases. The facts in all are similar, and they may therefore be considered together. The rule to be observed, and the amount of proof requisite in cases of this character, have recently been stated by the supreme court in the Maxwell Land-Grant Case, 121 U. S. 325, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1015, as follows:

“We think the general doctrine to be that…