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WEST v. RUTLEDGE TIMBER CO.

No. 276.

244 U.S. 90 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 587

61 L.Ed. 1010

WEST v. EDWARD RUTLEDGE TIMBER COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 21, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S.M. Stockslager, with whom Mr. A.H. Kenyon and Mr. Seabury Merritt were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Charles Donnelly and Mr. Stiles W. Burr, with whom Mr. Charles W. Bunn and Mr. James B. Kerr were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA, after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The controversy in the case turns on the construction and application of the act of Congress. Because of it the land offices, local and general, rejected plaintiff's application to enter the lands as a homestead. By virtue of it the railway and its grantee, the timber company, assert title. Its primary purpose was to set aside certain...

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