Lechler v. Chapin
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, Lyon County. The facts appear in the opinion. I. The court erred in overruling the demurrer. Our statute laws of 1867, p. 175, and 1869, p. 68, sec. 2, deals only with the rights of claimants to town property as they existed at the date of the entry of the lands by the proper authorities.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Third Judicial District, Lyon County. The facts appear in the opinion. I. The court erred in overruling the demurrer. Our statute laws of 1867, p. 175, and 1869, p. 68, sec. 2, deals only with the rights of claimants to town property as they existed at the date of the entry of the lands by the proper authorities. The date of entry is the precise point of time at which the rights of the occupants of a town-site become fixed, at law and in equity. After the right to enter the lands for the benefit of the occupants is once established (a fortiori after the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Hawley, C. J.:
On the thirtieth day of November, A.D. 1867, the district judge of Lyon county, acting under and in pursuance of the act of congress, entitled “An act for the relief of the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands,” approved March 2, 1867, entered in the land-office at Carson city, Nevada, the land embracing the town-site of Silver city, ‘ ‘ in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof, according to their respective interests.” (lit *67U. S. Stat. 541.) On the twentieth day of September, a.d. 1873, the government of the United States…
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