Steil v. Dessmore
District Court, D. Alaska
Plaintiff entered upon the homestead of one Heine, adjoining the town of Fairbanks, and took peaceable possession of a square block of ground thereon. He claimed the right to hold the same as public land, and leased portions thereof to other persons, who erected cabins and severally occupied separate lots with defined boundaries.
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Plaintiff entered upon the homestead of one Heine, adjoining the town of Fairbanks, and took peaceable possession of a square block of ground thereon. He claimed the right to hold the same as public land, and leased portions thereof to other persons, who erected cabins and severally occupied separate lots with defined boundaries. The remainder of the tract was unoccupied, except as it was a portion of Heine’s homestead and was occupied by him, and except as it was inclosed by Steil by posts set in the ground with a round pole nailed on top from post to post. The defendant, Dessmore, with the…
1Opinion of the Court
WICKERSPIAM, District Judge.
By the seventh section of “An act providing a civil government for Alaska,” approved May 17, 1884 (23 Stat. 24, c. 53), it was provided:
“That the general laws of the state of Oregon now In force are hereby declared to be the law in said district, so far as the same may be applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of this act or the laws of the United States.”
The forcible entry and detainer statutes of Oregon were extended to Alaska by that provision. These geneiral laws of Oregon continued in force in Alaska until June 6, 1900, when Congress passed the…
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