Lewis v. Johnson

Stayton, Associate Justice.

This action was brought by the appellee to recover an undivided one-half of two sections of land located and patented by virtue of two land certificates which P. T. and M. V. Adams, who were partners doing a land and cattle business, owned and located in 1875. After the lands were located, surveyed and the field notes returned to the general land office, on March 1, 1876, P. T. and M. V. Adams by a written conveyance duly acknowledged, transferred the certificates to W. 0. Adams, to whom the land was patented in the year 1880, and by conveyances through him the…