Goddard v. Donaha

Opinion by

Holt, C.:

William Gilruth, a wealthy farmer, living in Scioto county, Ohio, placed with Jeff. Thompson, at St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1860, five land warrants for him to locate on government lands in Kansas. Shortly after, Thompson went south into the rebel army, and never reported concerning the warrants. Gilruth heard nothing of them, nor of any land upon which they might have been located, until *755sometime in 1870, or 1871, when he saw in a Marshall county-newspaper that five quarter-sections of land, assessed in his name, were advertised in the delinquent tax-lists of that county; he…