UNITED STATES v. BOYD

No. 71-1459.

458 F.2d 1252 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Stanley A. BOYD and Hazel Boyd, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

April 25, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eva R. Datz, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant; Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John Milanowski, U. S. Atty., Robert C. Greene, Asst. U. S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., on brief.

Edward G. McNamara, Jr., St. Ignace, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and WEICK and MILLER, Circuit Judges.


WEICK, Circuit Judge.

The United States filed its complaint against the Boyds in the District Court to quiet title to and to obtain possession of about thirty acres of land in Township 41 North, Range 5 West in Mackinac County, Michigan, in Hiawatha National Forest.

The title claimed by the Boyds to the premises originated in a patent issued to Cyrenius Petty by the United States on February 1, 1849, being Certificate...

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