UNITED STATES v. SWEET

No. 99.

245 U.S. 563 (1918)

UNITED STATES v. SWEET, ADMINISTRATOR OF SWEET.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 28, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Kearful for the United States.

Mr. A.C. Ellis, Jr., with whom Mr. W.H. Dickson was on the brief, for appellee.


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

This is a suit by the United States to quiet the title to section 32 of a designated township in Carbon County, Utah, the suit being specially directed against a claim asserted by the defendant, as an assignee of the State, under the school land grant to the latter. Whether this tract passed to the State under that grant or was reserved to the United States as mineral...

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