| Show IEIUNI tax NI OlO T bo Owahl to is Million Dollars norm of IKI it SAN FRANCISCO Mob 9 The owuerahlp of a mil Ion dollar wolth ot laud In California depei da upon the legal nonstructljn of a word And a very simple word it 111the little familiar word 46broughtt But a legal battle came on iu the United < States court before Judge Morrow over the meaning of that word aa I Iud I-ud In an net ol Congress approved < 1 on Match 3 1831 Tell act provides that no suit anal lu brought by tile United < Biases vacate or annul any patent public lands Issued before the dale mentioned within five years from The passage of the act This period of limitation as the lawyers style 1 expired on the 3rd ol March last Cooatquently It appears the all pat i onto tu nubile loud Iud befcre March 8 1891 became absolute and Irrevocabeuu Moron 31690 Irovocab Joul unless previously attacked by suit brought alb a-lb a law requires Trio caste in which the point bat been ralsoJ la that 01 the United < H bate vs The American I umber um-ber company of Chicago anu the Central True company of Now York It la a suit in which tug government soaks lo have cancelled upon also ground of fraud auj const Iraoy moro than 100 dlttirent patents t redwood limber lanuslu Cailiorn Lusted I In Humboldl and MmJocluo co mtles The American Lumber ajiupaup SolJ the patents to these land whlon embrace em-brace no lees I fuels 70UO notes aud < Ibo value baa bean estimated a In the neighborhood ol a million dollars The Central Trust company Issued more gage bonds ou the security ol Ibo heads to the amount ot S UO 000 rile billet complaint was flleJ lu the cir cull Iranian tbu 3rd day of February 189S That was just a monib before the statutory period < of limitation e Wind alter which Ibo government could not institute suit Inn question ta be deciaed < West Was too suit brought whom the bU was IId The matter lOa argued boro Judge Morrow yesterday < anl ubwlltol I upuubrlofa I I mid to bo the fleet I aau Involving Ibo question of when a I lovollol luoton he Butt la brought In connection wllh I United Slates laud Patents And the I Imllatlou of flvo years tberoon Tbe decision will thus Afford < an Important precedent for both courts and < law oft |
