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UNITED STATES v. BOWLING

No. 295.

256 U.S. 484 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 561

65 L.Ed. 1054

UNITED STATES v. BOWLING ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Leslie C. Garnett, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, for the United States.

Mr. Halbert H. McCluer, with whom Mr. Vern E. Thompson was on the brief, for defendants in error.

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

This was an action by the United States to recover the possession of a tract of land in Oklahoma, with damages for its detention and use by the defendants for several years. The trial resulted in a judgment for the defendants, which the Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. 261 Fed. Rep. 657.

The land was allotted and patented under the Act of March 2, 1889, c. 422, 25 Stat. 1013, to Pe-te-lon-o-zah...

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