Potter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an action by the United States against W. Potter & Co., a copartnership composed of Warren Potter and Patrick Casey, for the conversion within the boom limits of the Mississippi river of 384,330 feet of pine timber of the value of $6 per thousand feet, which had been taken from the north half of the northeast quarter of section 12, in township 53 north, of range 26 west, in the state of Minnesota. The defense was that in the year 1894 one William Byerla entered the land under the homestead laws of the United States, and commenced to reside upon and improve it…
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