Draper v. Taylor

William Williams, who had been a private soldier in the civil war, took np a homestead of 120 acres in the state of Arkansas and occupied the same until 1887, when he exchanged it for other lands. In 1878 he sold his “additional homestead right” to Gilmore & Thomas, of the city of Washington, for a consideration of $50 and executed irrevocable powers of attorney authorizing them to locate the scrip and empowering them to substitute the name of the person who should by assignment of the right become entitled to receive the final receipt and patent for the land located. William M. Everetts,…