Knapp v. Alexander-Edgar Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE’CIRCUIT COURT OF BAYFIELD COUNTY, STATE OF WISCONSIN. The facts, which involve the rights of a homestead after entry and before patent as against trespassers, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
This action was . brought in the Circuit Court of Bay-field County, Wisconsin, by plaintiff in error, to recover damages for timber cut and removed from his land and converted into lumber by defendant. The Circuit Court rendered judgment for plaintiff, but the Supreme Court of the ¡State reversed this (145 Wisconsin, 528), and re manded the cause with directions to enter judgment in favor of defendant, and this having been done, the case comes here upon questions concerning the- nature of an entryman’s title under the homestead laws of the United States. Rev. Stat., U.. S., §§ 2289, et seq.
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