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WELLS v. BODKIN

No. 144.

267 U.S. 474 (1925)

45 S.Ct. 397

69 L.Ed. 742

WELLS, ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES E. WELLS, DECEASED, v. BODKIN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 13, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mrs. Susie Wells, pro se, submitted.

Mr. Patrick H. Loughran, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit under § 241. It was a bill in equity to have Patrick H. Bodkin and Arabella Bodkin, patentees of a quarter section of public land in the county of Riverside, California, declared trustees for the complainant Charles E. Wells. In May, 1903, one Geiger made a homestead entry of the land in dispute. In September of that...

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