United States v. Freyberg

This is a suit by the United States to recover the value of a quantity of timber cut by the defendants from lands which, on the twenty-first of November, 1888, were entered by one Klingenberg as a homestead. The cutting was done with the consent of the homesteader, who, at the time, ivas living on the land with his family. On the trial of the ease, the jury found the following facts in tho form of a special verdict:

“First. That the lands mentioned and described in the complaint wore duly entered as a homestead by tbe witness, Christian Klingenberg, on the twenty-first day of November, 1883;…