Macomber v. Kinney
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for St. Louis county against Orrin D. Kinney, Marshall H. Alworth, Robert L. Henry and seven other defendants to determine adverse claims to a certain quarter section of land. The complaint alleged that plaintiff was tbe patentee from tbe government under a patent wbicb was recorded in the office of tbe register of deeds in 1884; that be bad never conveyed away bis rights in tbe land, and was therefore tbe owner in fee thereof.
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Action in tbe district court for St. Louis county against Orrin D. Kinney, Marshall H. Alworth, Robert L. Henry and seven other defendants to determine adverse claims to a certain quarter section of land. The complaint alleged that plaintiff was tbe patentee from tbe government under a patent wbicb was recorded in the office of tbe register of deeds in 1884; that be bad never conveyed away bis rights in tbe land, and was therefore tbe owner in fee thereof. Tbe defendants answered separately and each set up that Warren Macomber, after tbe issue of the final receiver’s receipt, about February…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The United States government issued to plaintiff, Warren Macomber, on May 20, 1882, a patent, which was recorded in the office of the register of deeds on February 13, 1884, pursuant to a pre-emption cash entry recorded in said register of deeds office on December 2, 1880. On February 17, 1881, an instrument bearing the same date was recorded in said register’s office, whereby Warren McComber purported to convey the land described as the northeast quarter of section 29, township 50 north, of range 14, in St. Louis county, *150Minnesota, to one Michael Fink. These lands were practically vacant and…
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