UNITED STATES v. MINNESOTA

No. 17, Original.

270 U.S. 181 (1926)

UNITED STATES v. MINNESOTA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.W. Dyar, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Assistant Attorney General Parmenter, were on the brief, for complainant.

Messrs. M.J. Brown and G.A. Youngquist, Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota, with whom Messrs. Clifford L. Hilton, Attorney General of Minnesota, and Charles R. Pierce, were on the brief, for defendant.


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

This is a suit in equity brought in this Court by the United States against the State of Minnesota to cancel patents issued to her for certain lands under the swamp land grant, or, where the State has sold the lands, to recover their value and to leave the patents uncanceled as to such lands. Seven patents for about 153...

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