Southern Pac. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of the Northern Division of California; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Bill by the United States of America against the Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, and others. Prom a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
DIETRICH, District Judge.
This is an appeal by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and other defendants from a final decree entered August 9, 1915, in the District Court of the Southern District of California, canceling a patent issued to the railroad company on December 12, 1914, for 6,109.17 acres of land. The patent was procured, so the bill charges, through the fraud of the railroad company, in that it falsely represented -to the I,and Department that the lands were nonmineral and were of the character contemplated by the grant of July 27, 1866 (14 Stat. 292, c. 278), and the joint…
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