Legal Opinion
United States v. Zager
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided February 29, 1972No. Civ. A. 67-C-384PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
REYNOLDS, District Judge:
This is a quiet title action involving 74.56 acres of land in Forest County, Wisconsin, brought by the United States pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 1345.
The crux of the dispute is that in 1938 when the Government resurveyed Section 7, Township 38 North, Range 12 East, 4th Principal Meridian, in Forest County, it found that the meander line made of Lake Julia in the Government’s original survey of 1859 was erroneous, and that 112.11 acres of land (74.56 of which are in dispute today) lay between the meander line of 1859 and the meander line of 1938. The…
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- United States v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Paul T. Walton and Helen E. Walton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1969
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