Lamont v. Stimson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Tlie bill sets forth that on or about the 15th day of May, 1846, the complainant entered at the United States Land Office, at Green Bay, subject to any va. lid right of pre-emption, the south-west quarter and the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of section twenty-one, town sixteen, north of range twelve east, containing two hundred acres of land, for which he paid into said land office the sum of two hundred alu] fifty dollars, and at the time of the payment of…
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Tlie bill sets forth that on or about the 15th day of May, 1846, the complainant entered at the United States Land Office, at Green Bay, subject to any va. lid right of pre-emption, the south-west quarter and the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of section twenty-one, town sixteen, north of range twelve east, containing two hundred acres of land, for which he paid into said land office the sum of two hundred alu] fifty dollars, and at the time of the payment of said sum there was no valid right of pre-emp¡¿00 on said laud or any portion thereof, nor has there been any since that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Ciíawitoed, J.
The hill of complaint in this cause states, that about the 15th day of May A. D. 1846, at the United States Land Office at Green Bay, the complainant entered, purchased and paid for two hundred acres of land, a description of which is given in the hill, and that his said purchase was made subject to any valid pre-emption to said land; that he received the usual duplicate receipt from the receiver, which he still holds; that on or about the 27th day of January, A. D. 1846, the defendant Davis filed in the same land office a “ declaratory statement" of his intention…
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