UNITED STATES v. LANE

Nos. 160, 163, 162, 161, 192 and 191.

260 U.S. 662 (1923)

UNITED STATES v. LANE ET AL. UNITED STATES v. GULF REFINING COMPANY OF LOUISIANA. UNITED STATES v. SOUTHWESTERN GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY ET AL. UNITED STATES v. GULF REFINING COMPANY OF LOUISIANA. UNITED STATES v. GREENE ET AL. UNITED STATES v. LOUCKS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 22, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the briefs, for the United States.

Mr. S.L. Herold, with whom Mr. J.A. Thigpen, Mr. E.P. Lee, Mr. Hampden Story, Mr. J.D. Wilkinson and Mr. R.L. Batts were on the briefs, for appellees in Nos. 160, 163, 162 and 161, and respondents in No. 191.

Mr. Elias Goldstein, with whom Mr. H.C. Walker, Jr., Mr. S.M. Cook, and Mr. Hampden Story were on the brief, for appellees in No. 192.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

These suits involve claims of title on the part of the United States, hereinafter called the plaintiff, to various parcels of land laying along the border of Ferry Lake, a navigable body of water in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Answering these claims, the defendants in the respective cases averred that plaintiff, long before the bringing of the suits, had conveyed by patents to private persons certain fractional...

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