Kane v. Martel

How courts have described this case

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• government not estopped from resurveying lands when that option was announced at time of original survey
• in quiet title action by government, defendant’s estoppel counterclaim could succeed if affirmative misconduct established
• “It may be that th[e] rule [that laches is not available against the government] is subject to 7 evolution as was the traditional rule that equitable estoppel would not lie against the 8 government.”

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