Johnson v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The petitioner claims 320 acres of land at the Cascades of the Columbia river, Skamania county, Washington Territory, under the act of Congress approved September 27, 1850. The petitioner settled on the land in question in the year 1850, continued to reside upon and cultivate the same for four consecutive years, and otherwise performed every condition required by the act aforesaid in order to become entitled to a grant for the said land.
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The petitioner claims 320 acres of land at the Cascades of the Columbia river, Skamania county, Washington Territory, under the act of Congress approved September 27, 1850. The petitioner settled on the land in question in the year 1850, continued to reside upon and cultivate the same for four consecutive years, and otherwise performed every condition required by the act aforesaid in order to become entitled to a grant for the said land. In April, 1856, before the lands in Skamania county had been surveyed and before any steps could possibly have been taken by the petitioner to secure his…
1Opinion of the Court
‘Nott, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court :
This is an action brought to recover #2,000,000, together with certain unliquidated damages, being for the military occupation of the claimant’s land by the defendants. The facts are as follows :
In July, 1850, George W. Johnson, a young man between eighteen and nineteen years of age, settled upon a half-section or 320 acres of unoccupied public lands in the Territory of Oregon, on the northern bank of the Columbia river. The tract had been chosen for him by his father with rare sagacity, for it was situated at the foot of the Cascades and at the…
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