United States v. Beebe
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE , CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a suit in equity brought by the Attorney General on behalf of the United States to set aside and cancel certain patents issued in favor of Roswell Beebe, in 1838 and 1839, for about 480 acres of land upon, which the present city. of Little Rock, Arkansas, is partly built.
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APPEAL FROM THE , CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a suit in equity brought by the Attorney General on behalf of the United States to set aside and cancel certain patents issued in favor of Roswell Beebe, in 1838 and 1839, for about 480 acres of land upon, which the present city. of Little Rock, Arkansas, is partly built. Roswell Beebe having died many years ago, this suit is prosecuted against his heirs and legal representatives. It was brought, in the United States -Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, the bill having been…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
The points involved in the pleadings and made before the court below have been presented and urged with much earn- . estn^ss, both in the brief and in the oral argument-of counsel:'
-First. As to the right of the Attorney General 'to bring this suit.
The authority of the Attorney General under the Constitution and laws of the United States to institute a suit in the name of the United States to set aside a patent alleged to have been obtained by fraud or other mistake, whenever denied by a specific pleading before this court, has been uniformly maintained. And it may now be accepted as settled…
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