Guinn v. Spillman
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Ohase District Court. ACTION by Spillman and others against Quinn, to recover possession of a certain tract of land in Butler county. Tbe venue of the action was changed to Chase county. Judgment for plaintiffs at the February term, 1890. The defendant brings the case to this court.
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Error from Ohase District Court. ACTION by Spillman and others against Quinn, to recover possession of a certain tract of land in Butler county. Tbe venue of the action was changed to Chase county. Judgment for plaintiffs at the February term, 1890. The defendant brings the case to this court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion herein, filed December 9, 1893. We think that, whatever may have been the rule in the New England and other older and well-settled states, in this state and in this portion of the United States, all that is necessary, to establish an open, adverse and…
1Opinion of the Court
*501The opinion of the court was delivered by
JOHNSTON, J.:
This was an action by William D. Spillman, Margaret Spillman, Fannie J. Hickey, Ella G-reer, and Joseph W. Robertson, heirs of N. J. Spillman, deceased, to recover from Robert W. Guinn a 240-acre tract of land in Butler county. The claim of title of the plaintiffs below was based on patents from the United States, one of which was dated April 1, 1861, and the other May 1, 1862, both of which had been issued upon entries made with bounty land warrants assigned to N. J. Spillman. After the decease of Spillman, his widow, Mary Ann Spillman,…
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