Baker v. Newland
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Wilson District Court. ACTION brought by Baker against Newland, for the possession of certain land in Wilson county.' October 9, 1879, the court found for the defendant, and gave judgment accordingly. The plaintiff brings the case here. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
In the year 1870, John Newland (now deceased) and his wife, Eachel Newland (defendant in this action), settled upon the tract of land in controversy, to wit, the east half of the southwest quarter, and the west half of the southeast quarter of section sixteen, in township twenty-nine, south, of range seventeen, east, in Wilson county, Kansas, and proceeded to improve the same. Soon thereafter, in the same year, Newland filed in the local land office, then situated at Humboldt, Kansas, his declaratory statement under §12, act of July 15,…
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