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LINN TIMBER CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 46, 159.

236 U.S. 574 (1915)

LINN & LANE TIMBER COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. SAME v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 8, 1915.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Lind, with whom Mr. A. Ueland and Mr. W.M. Jerome were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Knaebel, with whom Mr. Henry C. Lewis was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Joel F. Vaile and Mr. Henry McAllister, Jr., filed a brief as amici curiae.

Mr. Joseph Paxton Blair and Mr. Charles R. Lewers filed a brief as amici curiae.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These are suits in equity brought by the United States against the appellants to annul patents issued under the Timber and Stone Act of June 3, 1878, c. 151, 20 Stat. 89, on the ground that the entries were fraudulent. Both of the courts below have found that the entries were fraudulent, that the defendant Smith was either a party to the fraud or chargeable with notice of it, and that the Linn & Lane Timber...

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