James v. Germania Iron Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. These appeals challenge decrees to the effect that the appellants hold their title to the N. W. % of the S. E. % of section 30, in township 03 N'., of range 11 W. of the fourth P. M., in the state of Minnesota, in trust for the appellees.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. These appeals challenge decrees to the effect that the appellants hold their title to the N. W. % of the S. E. % of section 30, in township 03 N'., of range 11 W. of the fourth P. M., in the state of Minnesota, in trust for the appellees. The decree in the suit first named evidences the result of the trial of the issues tendered by the bill in equity which was sustained by this court in Iron Co. v. James, 32 O. C. A. 348, 89 Fed. 811. Subsequent to the commencement of that suit the Germania Iron Company…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The land department of the United States is a quasi judicial tribunal, invested with authority to hear and determine claims to the public lands subject to its disposition, and its decisions' of the issues presented at such hearings are impervious to collateral attack, and presumptively right. A patent to land of the disposition of which the department has jurisdiction is both the judgment of that tribunal and a conveyance of the legal title to the land. 9 Stat. 395, c. 198, § 3; Rev. St. §§ Ml, 453; U. S. v. Winona & St. P. R. Co., 67 Fed. 948, 955, 15 C. C. A. 96, 193, 32 U. S. App. 272,…
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