Mason v. United States

delivéred the opinion of the Court.

These cases, involving the same questions, were consolidated for trial in the District Court as well as for hear ing on appeal in the Circuit Court of Appeals and argued together here.

The United States, as plaintiff, brought separate suits in equity in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana against the several groups of ^appellants (defendants in the bills) to have its title to Various parcels of land confirmed, possession thereof restored, defendants enjoined from setting up claims thereto, extracting oil or other minerals…