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WASHINGTON SEC. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 367.

234 U.S. 76 (1914)

34 S.Ct. 725

58 L.Ed. 1220

WASHINGTON SECURITIES CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.R. Clise, with whom Mr. Charles Kennedy Poe and Mr. Charles Poe were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Knaebel for the United States.

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

This was a suit to cancel four patents issued under the commutation provision of the homestead law and embracing a full section of land in King County, Washington. The bill charged that the patents were fraudulently procured by falsely representing to the land officers that the lands were agricultural in character, and therefore subject to homestead entry, when in truth they were at the time known to be...

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