Bovee v. McLean
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Calumet County. Ejectment, for lot 124 of the Stockbridge reservation in said county. The plaintiff introduced in evidence a certificate under the act of congress of March 3, 1865, for the land in controversy, to Henry Moon, dated September 1,1865, and numbered 26,636 ; and a 'deed of the land, dated the same day, from Moon to plaintiff. Defendant testified that he had been in possession from May, 1850, until the commencement of this snit.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Calumet County. Ejectment, for lot 124 of the Stockbridge reservation in said county. The plaintiff introduced in evidence a certificate under the act of congress of March 3, 1865, for the land in controversy, to Henry Moon, dated September 1,1865, and numbered 26,636 ; and a 'deed of the land, dated the same day, from Moon to plaintiff. Defendant testified that he had been in possession from May, 1850, until the commencement of this snit. He then read the act of congress of 1843, providing for the allotment of the lands in the town of Stockbrigde, and called…
1Opinion of the CourtColts, J.
This cause has been submitted on the part of the defendant without any argument or briefs. We are therefore in the dark as to what rulings he relies on to reverse the judgment. A number of questions were *228asked the witness Chicks, who was sworn for the defendant on the trial, as to whether he was one of the commissioners elected under the act of congress (5 U. S. Stat. at Large, ch. 101, p. 645) to make partition of the lands therein named among the individual members of the tribe; and whether he acted as such commissioner. These questions were objected to, and ruled out. The act of congress…
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