Bull v. Campbell
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota; Charles F. Amidon, Judge. Action by Hugh Campbell, Jr., against Joseph W. Bull. Decree for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The appellee, hereinafter called the plaintiff, filed his bill in the District Court against the appellant, referred to hereafter as the defendant, to determine adverse claims and to quiet his title to a quantity of land in the state of North Dakota.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota; Charles F. Amidon, Judge. Action by Hugh Campbell, Jr., against Joseph W. Bull. Decree for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The appellee, hereinafter called the plaintiff, filed his bill in the District Court against the appellant, referred to hereafter as the defendant, to determine adverse claims and to quiet his title to a quantity of land in the state of North Dakota. The defendant, asserting title in himself, filed a counterclaim, asking for the same relief against the plaintiff. The plaintiff claims…
1Opinion of the CourtTrieber, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The defendant relies for a reversal, upon two grounds: (1) That the mortgage executed by Christopher Stuart Patterson to Robert Campbell, as. whose assignee of the mortgage plaintiff claims, was absolutely void, as at the time the railway company conveyed these lands to Stuart, and the subsequent conveyances from Stuart to Patterson and the mortgage by Patterson to Robert Campbell, it had not received a patent from the government Cor these lands, although they had been granted to and selected by the railway company long before. (2) That the foreclosure…
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