Weare v. Linnell

The complainant filed his bill in this cause to have his right established in certain lands, the apparent title to which is vested in defendant Moffat.

The complainant’s case is, that in the year 1856 he located the lands with military land warrants owned by himself, at the United States land office at Ionia, Michigan, but that he made such location in the name of the defendant Linnell, then an infant of the age of fourteen years, who was then expected to live with complainant as a member of his family until he should arrive at his majority. The object in making the location in Linnell’s name…