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UNITED STATES v. COLORADO ANTHRACITE CO.

No. 227.

225 U.S. 219 (1912)

UNITED STATES v. COLORADO ANTHRACITE CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 27, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General John Q. Thompson for the United States.

Mr. Charles A. Keigwin, with whom Mr. E.W. Spalding was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action, under the act of June 16, 1880, 21 Stat. 287, c. 244, § 2, for the repayment of the purchase price paid to the Government for 160 acres of public coal lands, the entry of which was subsequently canceled. The plaintiff prevailed in the Court of Claims, 45 C. Cl. 614, and the Government has appealed, claiming that on the findings the judgment...

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