Woodruff v. Core

Under the act of 18th January, 1855, the appellee, the plaintiff in the court below, was entitled to a pre-emption from having an improvement upon the west half of the north-west quarter of section eight, in township two south of range ten west, by declaring and proving his claim according to the provisions of the law. The 14th section of the act of 13th January, 1857, would also give the appellee a pre-emption right by making proof of his cultivation of the land under the previous law, for that act did not restrict the right to such persons as wished to pay for lands by leveés, ditches or…