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UNITED STATES v. POLAND

No. 29.

251 U.S. 221 (1920)

40 S.Ct. 127

64 L.Ed. 236

UNITED STATES v. POLAND ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Nebeker, with whom The Solicitor General was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Ira Bronson and Mr. George H. Patrick, with whom Mr. H.B. Jones was on the brief, for respondents. Among the points presented by them was the following:

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

This is a suit to cancel a patent issued to William B. Poland for one hundred and sixty acres of land in Alaska, the gravamen of the complaint being that by this and another patent, both based upon soldiers' additional homestead rights, Poland acquired a single body of land of larger acreage than was permitted by the statute under which the patents were sought and issued. The defendants, who were the patentee...

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