Towsley v. Johnson
Nebraska Supreme Court
This is an appeal from a decree, rendered by Mr. Justice Crounse, sitting in tbe District Court for Douglass county. It was a bill in chancery, filed by John W. Towsley, against these appellants, to recover the legal title to the premises in question.
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This is an appeal from a decree, rendered by Mr. Justice Crounse, sitting in tbe District Court for Douglass county. It was a bill in chancery, filed by John W. Towsley, against these appellants, to recover the legal title to the premises in question. The record shows the following-, facts: Towsley, being the head of a family and a citizen of the United States, and never having enjoyed the privilege of preempting any part of the public land, unless he did so under the circumstances hereafter stated, and not being the proprietor of three hundred and twenty acres of land, and not having quit Or…
1Opinion of the Court
Mason, Ch. J.
If we reverse this decree, we shall drive from these premises, a citizen who has, with his family, lived and made his home upon them for more than ten years ; who entered upon them when they were raw prairie, and opened upon them a farm ; who has gone on year by year adding to his improvements, until now his farm-house, his barns, his fences, his implements of husbandly, his cultivated fields, his crops, attest not only his industry and thrift, but his honest intention, at the first, and thence down to this day, to make here, for himself and his family, his home.
If we reverse…
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