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UNITED STATES v. STINSON

No. 153.

197 U.S. 200 (1905)

UNITED STATES v. STINSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 13, 1905.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Marsden C. Burch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom the Solicitor General and Mr. John B. Simmons, Special Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. R.M. Bashford, with whom Mr. John C. Spooner and Mr. A.L. Sanborn were on the brief, for appellees Stinson.

Mr. William E. Church, Mr. Robert McMurdy and Mr. Roger Sherman for certain other appellees, submitted a brief.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

While the Government, like an individual, may maintain any appropriate action to set aside its grants and recover property of which it has been defrauded, and while laches or limitation do not of themselves constitute a distinct defense as against it, yet certain propositions in respect to such an action have been fully established...

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