Baker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.2d 863 · 1928
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2008
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Ex parte McCardle · Fletcher v. Peck · Mammoth Oil Co. v. United States
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““The people of Puerto Rico have filed a bill of intervention, alleging that the deed by the United States to Baker includes underwater area, and that the United States could not lease such area to Baker, because it belonged to the insular government, the people of Porto Rico, and that Baker defrauded the United States. The defendants answered, tendering a quitclaim deed by Commander Baker to the people of Porto Rico of all rights which the defendants had in such area, without prejudice to the interest of the United States. “It will be seen that the government included the underwater area in their lease. The bill of complaint alleges that the tract, including the underwater area, belonged to the United States. We do not think it necessary to discuss the action of the people in the insular government with reference to this underwater area. So far as this suit is concerned, we think this question is settled by the tender by Commander Baker of a quitclaim deed to the insular government. This tendered deed was to 'release, relinquish, and quitclaim in favor of the people of Porto Rico any right, title, or interest which he has or may have by virtue of the said lease of July 15, 1921, to the submerged area.’ It seems clear to us that, if the insular government in fact owned this area, the lease by the United States to Baker was a nullity to this extent, and, if any bill of intervention were filed, it should have been directed primarily against the United States.” (Énfasis nuestro.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where courts intrude into their decree their opinions on questions of public policy, they in effect constitute the judicial tribunals as law-making bodies in usurpation of the powers of the Legislature.”
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