United States v. Beaman
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado; Robert E. Eewis, Judge. Rill by the United States against D. C. Beaman and another. From, a decree for defendants, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit commenced August 13, 1909, to set aside a patent to 160 acres of land in Colorado issued to *878Joseph Miskiel on September 8, 1904, and all the conveyances succeeding the patent, on the ground that Miskiel fraudulently entered it as agricultural land under the homestead law (sections 2289, 2291, Revised Statutes [Comp. St. 1916, §§ 4S30, 4532]), and acquired it by commutation under section 2301, Revised Statutes (Comp. St. 1916, § 4589), when it was known at the time he purchased it to be valuable for its coal. The defense was a denial that the land was…
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