Webster v. Luther
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Alfred F. Webster, from a judgment of the District Court of St. Louis county, Ensign, J., entered October 17, 1891. Defendants Milo J. Luther and Louis Eouchleau claimed to own lots one (1) and two (2) in section eighteen, (18,) T. 62, R. 14, containing ninety-two and a half acres in St. Louis county.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Alfred F. Webster, from a judgment of the District Court of St. Louis county, Ensign, J., entered October 17, 1891. Defendants Milo J. Luther and Louis Eouchleau claimed to own lots one (1) and two (2) in section eighteen, (18,) T. 62, R. 14, containing ninety-two and a half acres in St. Louis county. They de-, rived title as follows: Mary A. Robertson, of Benton county, Missouri, widow of James A. Robertson, deceased, was entitled under U. S. Rev. Stat. § 2306, to one hundred and twenty acres of the public land, additional to her original homestead entry of forty acres…
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
This is the case of a right to make an additional entry of lands given to a soldier homesteader under U. S. Rev. Stat. § 2306, being section 2 of the act of April 4, 1872, entitled “An act to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands'of the United States,” as that section was amended by the acts of June 8, 1872, and March 3, 1873. Taking the instrument executed by Mary A. Robertson, the person entitled to the additional entry, to James A. Boggs, to have been intended to be not merely a power of attorney to…
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