State ex rel. Veeder v. Collins
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was a motion for a peremptory mandamus to be directed to tbe judge of tbe ninth judicial circuit, or ratber to tbe Circuit Court of Columbia county, commanding said 'court to make an order, to be directed to tbe proper officer, for tbe issuing of a certificate of purchase of certain lands therein described.
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This was a motion for a peremptory mandamus to be directed to tbe judge of tbe ninth judicial circuit, or ratber to tbe Circuit Court of Columbia county, commanding said 'court to make an order, to be directed to tbe proper officer, for tbe issuing of a certificate of purchase of certain lands therein described. Although many of tbe material facts, as well as tbe statutes applicable to tbe case, are set forth in the opinion of tbe court, yet a more full statement of tbe history of tbe proceeding is necessary, in order to a full understanding of tbe points decided. The case out of which this…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
By reference to the report of the matter of the appeal of J. J. Guppy from the decision of the re*342gister of the state land office, in relation to the right of entry of certain lands of the tract of land granted by the Congress of the United States to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, and to connect the same by a canal, reported at length in 3d Wisconsin Reports, 502, it will be seen that Yeeder, Mars and Guppy, as county j udge and trustee for the settlers* applied, in 1853, to the said register, to enter a certain quarter section of land, part and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Veeder v. GuppyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1854
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