DIAMOND COAL CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 192.

233 U.S. 236 (1914)

DIAMOND COAL AND COKE CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 6, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Cornelius F. Kelley and Mr. L.O. Evans, with whom Mr. B.M. Ausherman was on the brief, for appellant.

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Karl W. Kirchwey was on the brief, for the United States.


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

This was a suit by the United States, against an incorporated company engaged in coal mining, to regain the title to about 2,840 acres of land in Uinta County, Wyoming, theretofore patented to Thomas Sneddon and Daniel F. Harrison and by them conveyed to the coal company. The patents, thirty-four in number, were issued under the homestead law upon what are called soldiers' additional entries. The applications...

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