Manning v. Hayden
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
This suit is brought by the plaintiff [Charles Manning], a citizen of California, against the defendant [Benjamin Hayden], a citizen of Oregon, to compel a conveyance of certain premises situated in Polk county, containing three hundred and nineteen acres, and known as the south half of the Bethuel and Rachel Dove donation, the same being parts of sections 2 and 3, in township 8 south, of range 4 west, of the Willamette meridian.
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This suit is brought by the plaintiff [Charles Manning], a citizen of California, against the defendant [Benjamin Hayden], a citizen of Oregon, to compel a conveyance of certain premises situated in Polk county, containing three hundred and nineteen acres, and known as the south half of the Bethuel and Rachel Dove donation, the same being parts of sections 2 and 3, in township 8 south, of range 4 west, of the Willamette meridian. Substantially the bill alleges that the premises in controversy were the property of said. Rachel, the wife of said Bethuel, the same being her half of the donation…
1Opinion of the Court
DEADY, District Judge.
Upon the evidence, including the answer of the defendant, the following facts are satisfactorily established: That on September 18,1874, the register and receiver of the proper land-office issued a certificate, under section 7 of the act of September 27, 1850, aforesaid, from which it appears that the premises in controversy are the wife’s half of the donation of Bethuel and Rachel Dove, granted to them by section 4 of the act aforesaid, on account of the husband’s settlement and occupation thereon, commencing on December 1, 1868; that some time prior to 1858, and up to…
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