UNITED STATES v. CLARK

No. 359.

200 U.S. 601 (1906)

UNITED STATES v. CLARK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 5, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. Walter M. Bickford and Mr. George F. Shelton for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill for the cancellation of eighty patents for timber lands in Montana, now owned by the defendant, on the ground that the patentees did not purchase the same in good faith for their own exclusive use and benefit, but for speculation and under agreement by which their title should enure to the benefit of another, and that the defendant knew the facts in a general...

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