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JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 103.

258 U.S. 40 (1922)

JONES v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 27, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John H. Hall and Mr. Jay Bowerman, for plaintiff in error, submitted.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. H.L. Underwood were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit brought by the United States to recover the value of lands that it alleges it was induced to part with through the defendant's fraud. The lands concerned had been in the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon and had been thrown open to homestead entry by the Act of August 15, 1894, c. 290, § 15, 28 Stat. 286, 326. In addition to the usual fees a payment...

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