Grubbs v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Iu Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The United States district attorney preferred an information against Jesse M. Grubbs, the plaintiff in error, for an alleged violation of section 24G1 of the Bevised Statutes of the United States, which, so far as it is applicable to this case, reads as follows: “If any person shall cut, or cause or procure to he cut, or aid, or assist, or he employed in catting any live-oak or…
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Iu Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The United States district attorney preferred an information against Jesse M. Grubbs, the plaintiff in error, for an alleged violation of section 24G1 of the Bevised Statutes of the United States, which, so far as it is applicable to this case, reads as follows: “If any person shall cut, or cause or procure to he cut, or aid, or assist, or he employed in catting any live-oak or red-cedar trees, or other timber on, or shall remove, or cause or procure to he removed, or aid, or assist, or he employed in…
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, Circuit Judge
The acts of congress relating to the settlement upon and acquisition of the title to public lands by actual settlers, and the practice of the land department under them, are controlling in determining the rights of such settlers. Although this case arises under the homestead act, it will be profitable to advert briefly to an earlier statute, which gave to actual settlers the preference right to purchase the public land on which they had settled, upon conditions which, so far as relate to the occupancy (except the period of its duration) and improvement of the land, are in substance identical…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Conway v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1899
3Cited by3 opinions
- Ware v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1907
- Teller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1901
- King-Ryder Lumber Co. v. ScottSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1904