UNITED STATES v. DETROIT LUMBER CO.

Nos. 106, 165.

200 U.S. 321 (1906)

UNITED STATES v. DETROIT TIMBER AND LUMBER COMPANY. MARTIN-ALEXANDER LUMBER COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 19, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Marsden C. Burch and Mr. Fred A. Maynard, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, with whom The Solicitor General was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. James F. Read, with whom Mr. U.M. Rose, Mr. Thomas C. McRae and Mr. George B. Rose were on the brief, for appellees in No. 106.

Mr. W.E. Hemingway, with whom Mr. U.M. Rose and Mr. George B. Rose were on the brief, for appellants in No. 165.


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

The able and elaborate opinions of both the Circuit Court and the Court of Appeals relieve us from much labor. There are two questions of fact: First, whether the parties making the entries had, prior to acquiring title from the Government, made any agreement with the Martin-Alexander Company for a conveyance of an interest in the...

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