Cameron v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME' COURT OE THE TERRITORY QE ARIZONA; This was a proceeding by the United States- to compel the defendant to abate a wire fence, by which be was alleged to have inclosed a large tract of public lands, belonging to the United 'States, and subject to entry as agricultural lands, in-violation'of the act of February 25, 1885, 23 Stat. 321, 0.1A9, to prevent the unlawful occupancy of public lands.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME' COURT OE THE TERRITORY QE ARIZONA; This was a proceeding by the United States- to compel the defendant to abate a wire fence, by which be was alleged to have inclosed a large tract of public lands, belonging to the United 'States, and subject to entry as agricultural lands, in-violation'of the act of February 25, 1885, 23 Stat. 321, 0.1A9, to prevent the unlawful occupancy of public lands. The first.; section .of the act reads as follows: . “ All inclosures of- any public lands in any 'State or Territory of the United States, heretofore or to be hereafter made,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
By the act of March 3, 1885, 23 Stat. M3, c. 355, “no appeal or writ of error shall hereafter be allowed from any judgment or decree in any suit at law or in equity . ... in the Supreme Court of any of the Territories of the United-States, unless the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.” The proceeding in. this case was a special one to compel the abatement and destruction of a wire fence, with which the defendant was alleged to enclose 800 acres of the public lands of the United States, without title or claim or color of title thereto,…
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