Tierney v. Cornell
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was a petition in error to reverse a judgment of the disti’ict court of Johnson county. Cornell was plaintiff in the court below, and judgment being rendered in his favor, the defendants prosecuted this petition in error. The case is fully stated in the opinion of. the court.
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This was a petition in error to reverse a judgment of the disti’ict court of Johnson county. Cornell was plaintiff in the court below, and judgment being rendered in his favor, the defendants prosecuted this petition in error. The case is fully stated in the opinion of. the court. The statutes construed are the acts of Congress for the relief of citizens of towns upon the lands of the United States, 5 U. S. Statutes at La/rge, 657, and an act of the territorial legislature of Nebraska, generally known as the “Town Site Act:” Laws of 1858, 266. presented the following points: I. When a…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
This action was originally brought in the district court of Johnson county by the defendant in error, Horatio N. Cornell; against Kyron Tierney and others above named, who are plaintiffs in errdr in this court.
Cornell, in his petition, alleged that John Boulware, John Maulding, J. C. Lawrence, George W. Boulware, and A. P. Drake, were proprietors and occupants of the town site of Tecumseh, in said county, located on the south half of section twenty-eight (28), in township five (5), north, range eleven (11), east of the sixth principal meridian, in the district of lands subject to sale at…
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