Wallowa County v. Wade

This is a suit to enjoin the defendant from obstructing a public highway running through sections 24, 25, and 36 in township 1 south of range 44 east of the Willamette Meridian, in Wallowa County. All of sections 24 and 25, except one forty-acre tract, was unoccupied public land of the United States until 1901, when it was settled upon under the homestead law. The forty-acre tract was taken as a homestead in 1896. Section 36 was school land, belonging to the state, until January, 1901, when the defendant contracted for its purchase. The road in question is a part of a highway from the Town of…