UNITED STATES v. DALCOUR

No. 69.

203 U.S. 408 (1906)

UNITED STATES v. DALCOUR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 3, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, and Mr. Robert A. Howard, Special Assistant Attorney, for the United States.

Mr. William A. Blount, with whom Mr. William W. Dewhurst and Mr. A.C. Blount, Jr., were on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. Henry R. Hatfield for heirs of John Forbes, appellees.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a petition to establish title by a grant of about one million eight hundred and fifty thousand acres of land in Florida, brought in the District Court under the act of June 22, 1860, c. 188, § 11, 12 Stat, 85, 87, extended by act of June 10, 1872, c. 421, 17 Stat. 378, for three years from the last date. The petitioners had a decree in the District Court...

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