Case ID: us-ct-cl_56/html/0474-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice McKeNNa", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HENRY FRIEDMAN v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [54 C. Cls., 225 ; 255 U. S., 468.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    Section 2347 of the Revised Statutes, in providing that public coal lands may be entered Upon payment of “ not less than ” ten dollars per acre and “ not less than ” twenty dollars per acre, according to their distance from a completed railroad, sets up those prices as minima and by implication empowers the Secretary of the Interior to charge higher prices proportionate to the value of tracts sold.
   Mr. Justice McKeNNa

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court March 28, 1921.