Larned v. Jenkins
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. This is an action of ejectment. The court below rendered a judgment for the plaintiff on a demurrer to the answer of the defendant. The writ of error challenges this judgment.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. This is an action of ejectment. The court below rendered a judgment for the plaintiff on a demurrer to the answer of the defendant. The writ of error challenges this judgment. The property in controversy is an irregular tract of land adjoining the Cook lode mining claim on the north, and it has a length of 357 feet on one side and 283 feet on the other, and a width of 25 feet on one end and 101 feet on the other, measured upon the diagonal lines which form its ends. This tract of land was patented to the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The title of the defendant, in error Jenkins consists of a patent to the city of Central, and a regular conveyance from its successor, the city of Blackhawk, to himself. On its face, this title is regular and sufficient. Counsel for the plaintiff in error assail it on the grounds (t) that the patent to the city of Central was void and ineffectual to convey this property, because it was reserved from conveyance as a part of a town site, under sections 2386, 2392, Rev. St.; and (2) because the conveyance from the city of Blackhawk was made to Jenkins while Rogers, the grantor of the plaintiff…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Davis's Administrator v. WeibboldSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Dower v. RichardsSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Lebanon Mining Co. of New York v. RogersSupreme Court of Colorado · 1884
- New Dunderberg Min. Co. v. OldCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1897
- Wolfley v. Lebanon Mining Co., of New YorkSupreme Court of Colorado · 1878
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