Carr v. Fife

In this suit the plaintiff claims to be the equitable owner of a tract of land to which the .defendants have the legal title, derived through one Robert E. Sproule, who obtained a patent for it from the United States. The plaintiff alleges that he settled upon it in the year 1871, and thereafter acquired a vested right to it by full compliance on his part with the provisions of the act of congress commonly known as the “Homestead Law,” and the several acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto; and he especially claims the benefits of the laws affecting the homestead rights of persons…