Beecher v. Wetherby
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This was replevin by Beecher to recover from Wetherby, James, and S tille-, saw-logs, cut and taken by them during the •winterof 1872 and 1873, from section 16, township 28, range 14 east, in Wisconsin.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This was replevin by Beecher to recover from Wetherby, James, and S tille-, saw-logs, cut and taken by them during the •winterof 1872 and 1873, from section 16, township 28, range 14 east, in Wisconsin. The plaintiff asserts title to the land under patents from the United States bearing date Oct.'10,1872; and the. defendants, under patents .from that State of Dec. 15,1865, .and Sept. 26, 1870. Under the eighth article of the treaty of Aug. 19, 1825, 7 Stat. 272, the Menomonee lands were, declared to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This was an action of replevin brought by the plaintiff to recover two million feet of pine saw-logs of the estimated valué of. $25,000, alleged to be his, property, and to have been wrongfully detained from him by the defendants. The complaint was in the usual form in such cases, and the answer consisted of a'general denial of its averments. The logs were cut by the defendants from the tract of land in Wisconsin which constitutes section sixteen (16). in township twenty-eight (28), range fourteen (14), in the county of Shawano, in that State. The plaintiff claimed to be the owner of' the…
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