v0757-699

nJ

No. 2143

IN THE

United States Circuit Court of Appeals

For the Ninth Circuit

GOLCONDA CATTLE COMPANY

(a corporation),

Appellant,

vs.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Appellee.

BRIEF OF APPELLANT ON REHEARING.

In our petition for rehearing we have set forth the

misapprehensions of fact as to the location of the spaces

between the fences in question here, and as to the pur-

pose of the company in erecting them. Upon re-exam-

ination of the government's exhibit, we have discovered

what we believe to be the cause of the court's error.

The legend adopted by the draughtsman for a fence is

a straight line, with nothing to distinguish it from the

section lines. As a section line crosses many of the

fourteen openings between the various fences of the

company and of the other owners, the court probably

failed to recognize all of them as openings. In any

event, the effect of the mistakes of the opinion is to

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