Harrington v. Hedlund

Plaintiffs are attorneys at law, and brought this action to recover $320 for professional services in procuring for defendant the title to a quarter-section of land in Boyd county. Defendant had settled on the land, and attempted to obtain a patent for it from the federal government under the homestead laws, but was defeated because it was in that part of the Fort Randall Military Reservation selected by the state as school lands in lieu of other school lands of which the state had been deprived by early homesteaders, Defendant’s controversies extended over a series of years, and he…