Witcher v. Wiles

SPEER, Associate Justice.

The award of the land in controversy to appellee Bayless must be sustained. His applications for the survey, •and to purchase, being regular, and all other requirements of the law having been fully complied with, he was entitled to the award, and his right was superior to that of Cawthon, under whom appellant claims, for the reason that said Cawthon was never an actual settler upon the land. The land not being detached land, the purchaser under the "acts of 1900 and 1901 must be held to a compliance with the conditions of actual settlement. See Act Feb. 23, 1900, Gen.…