Legal Opinion

Carson v. Railsback

Washington Territory

Decided February 4, 1887PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from the District Court at Tacoma. Second District. The material facts are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Turner

In the year 1869 one William Thomas Gibson, a male *172citizen of the United States over the age of twenty-one years, acquired from the United States, by purchase under the pre-emption laws, a quarter-section of land, of which the lands described .in the several complaints herein were a part. Patent issued to him on the tenth day of October, 1872. On the eighteenth day of August, 1870, said William T. Gibson and wife, for valuable consideration paid, sold and conveyed to Aaron Chandler by deed, with full covenants of warranty, the said lands described in the complaint, and the conveyance was put…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Myers v. CroftSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
  2. Smith v. TaylorWashington Supreme Court · 1891

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Bingham v. SherfeyWashington Supreme Court · 1951
  2. Schmidt v. PowellWashington Supreme Court · 1919
  3. Hartigan v. HoffmanWashington Supreme Court · 1896
  4. Lilygren v. RogersCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1969

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