Hoover v. Salling
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. The bill was by the appellant, a citizen of the state of Wisconsin, against the appellee, a citizen of the state of Michigan, to have it decreed that ap-pellee had no right, title, interest or claim, in certain lands in Bayfield county, Wisconsin, in the bill described, but that the same should be decreed to have been held by him in trust for the appellant; and for an injunction against…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. The bill was by the appellant, a citizen of the state of Wisconsin, against the appellee, a citizen of the state of Michigan, to have it decreed that ap-pellee had no right, title, interest or claim, in certain lands in Bayfield county, Wisconsin, in the bill described, but that the same should be decreed to have been held by him in trust for the appellant; and for an injunction against the sale of the same, or waste' of the timber thereon. The bill alleges that on the 13th of April, 1894, the lands in…
1Opinion of the Court 1
After the foregoing statement of the facts,
2Opinion of the Court · GrosscupGrosscup, Circuit Judge
The provisions of the act of Congress relevant to this case are as follows:
“That surveyed public lands of the United States * * * not included within military, Indian, or other reservations of the United States, valuable chiefly for timber, but unfit for cultivation, and which have not been offered at public sale, according to law, may be sold to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such, in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one person or associations of persons, at the…
3Cases cited2 opinions
- Morrill v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- American Carpet Lining Co. v. ChipmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
4Cited by3 opinions
- Byron v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1921
- Robnett v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1909
- Ballinger v. United States ex rel. NessCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1909