Local 261, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners v. Aston Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding estoppel applicable in a public lands case, where defendants “complain of affirmative misconduct on the part of government officials who gave them incorrect information”
• finding doctrine of estoppel could be applied against government where \affirmative misconduct on the part of ... officials\ was relied on by plaintiff
• estoppel granted where government agent gave incorrect information because he should have known plaintiff would act on it
• estoppel granted where government agent gave incorrect information because he should have known plaintiff would act on it
• held, plaintiffs not ejected because they were told (incorrectly) that they could not file for the land
• held, plaintiffs not ejected because they were told (incorrectly) that they could not file for the land

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