Wilkinson v. Merrill

McKee, J.:

In a contention, under an Act of Congress passed July 23rd, 1866, between the defendant and the plaintiff in this case, before the register and receiver of the United States land office, involving the rights of the parties to a tract of land, which is now, as it was then, the subject of controversy between them, the commissioner of the land office, by his judgment, canceled the pre-emption claim of the plaintiff to the land, adjudged that the locations, which had been made by the defendant upon the land under the laws of the State, were regular and valid, and that the State was…