
    THE ALABAMA STATE LAND COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [Not reported in C. Cls. R.; 194 U. S. R., 394.]
    
      On the defendants Appeal.
    
    The above suit grew out of a grant of public lands to the State of Alabama to aid in the construction of various railroads, said lands by various acts of the legislature afterwards becoming the property of the claimants. Certain persons went upon said lands and removed therefrom valuable iron ore and lime rock, and the United States brought suit for the value of same, the claimants asserting a claim to the benefit of the recovery which might be made, but assenting to a compromise made by the United States with the trespassers, by which §15,000 was paid to the United States as the value of same, but reserved their right to recover the same from the United States.
    The claimants brought suit to recover said §15;000, being the amount of the compromise paid the United States. Upon a finding of facts the court below entered judgment in favor of the claimants for §15,000, without an opinion being given.
   The decision of the court below is affirmed.

Mr. Justice White

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, May 16, 1904.  