Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“ The ground of the denial is that by § 6 of the act of March 3, 1891, chap. 517 [26 Stat. at L. 828, U.S.C.omp. Stat. 1901, p. 550] , the circuit court of appeals shall exercise appellate jurisdiction to review final decisions in the district courts, etc., in all cases other than those provided for in the preceding section, 'unless otherwise provided by law.' There is no doubt that this enactment was intended to supersede previous general provisions, and to establish in what cases and to what courts appeals might be taken from the district courts. ”

“ There is no case to which they can apply more clearly than one in which, by reason of its interest, the United States has manifested its will to submit to no judgment not sanctioned by its highest court. The language of § 11 is not the usual permission to appeal, such as existed in the act of March 3, 1851, chap. ”

“ We do not perceive that the United States, by its course, lost its right to maintain that the amendment set up a new cause of action, which was barred by the limitation fixed by the statutes on the matter, and it urges that defense. Union P. R. Co. v. Wyler, 158 U.S. 285, 298, 39 L. ed. 983, 991, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 877.
It has been decided that a decree upon a bill to have a patent declared void as forfeited under an act of Congress was a bar to a subsequent bill for the same purpose upon the different ground that the land was excepted from the grant as an Indian reservation. United States v. ”

“ There is a strong argument that it no more was intended to validate all other grants expressly annulled, but rather that what was aimed at was the so-called disputed territory lying west of the river Perdido, of which a short and clear account is to be found in United States v. ”