Legal Opinion
Independent Coal & Coke Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 6, 1927No. 300PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
This is a second suit by the United States, and is in aid of the.first, for the restoratic%to the government of some fifty-five hundred acres of public, lands located in Utah, title to which was procured by a fraud perpetrated upon the land officers of the United States. The first suit, which resulted in a judgment for the government (affirmed 228 Fed. 431), was predicated upon the following circumstances.
The United States, in 1894, made a grant of public lands to the State of Utah to aid in the establishment of an agricultural college, certain schools and asylums and for other purposes. (§§…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- United States v. SweetSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
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- Wright-Blodgett Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
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