United States v. Portland Coal & Coke Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Washington
In Equity. Suits by the United States against the Portland Coal & Coke Company and others for cancellation of patents.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
In these six cases the government sues to obtain decrees canceling patents issued for lands entered under the coal land law, which permits- entries by individuals of not exceeding 160 acres, and by associations of not exceeding 820 acres, of public land containing coal deposits and chiefly valuable for coal mining. The several bills of complaint are similar in their allegations, and, considered together as one general complaint, they show that separate entries were made by individuals and associations, each of a quantity of land not exceeding the maximum, and that the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. Trinidad Coal & Coking Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1890
3Cited by3 opinions
- Kennedy v. LonabaughWyoming Supreme Court · 1911
- United States v. AllenU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Washington · 1910
- United States v. DoughtenU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Washington · 1911