Robbins v. Bunn

On the fifteenth of November, 1855, John P. Mitchell purchased at the government land sales a part of section 27, in township 19 range 3, in the Danville land district, and received the usual certificate of purchase,- and at the same time Clifton H. Moore purchased another portion of the same section, and also received his certificate of purchase. On the second of February, 1856, Thomas J. Bunn was allowed to enter the same land as a preemptor, claiming to have commenced a settlement and improvement on said land on the eighth of November, 1855. Moore and Mitchell contested the preemption…