Hatch v. Ferguson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of tlie United íátates for the District of Washington. This was a suit by Dexter Hatch, Arthur Hatch, Cyrus Hatch, and Ezra Hatch, by their next friend, Josephine Hatch, against E„ C. Ferguson, Henry Hewitt, Jr., the Everett Land Company, Judson La Moure, and -Minnie E. La Moure to annul a judicial sale of certain land. The circuit court rendered a decree for the complainants. 57 Fed. 966. Defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
Tbe complainants in this suit are the minor children of Ezra Hatch, deceased, and devisees of his last will and testament. They bring suit to set aside the judicial sale of their interest in the pre-emption claim of their testator and the decree of partition upon which the same was sold. Ezra Hatch died on the 8th day of July, 1890, leaving five children, to whom he devised all his estate, real and personal, appointing E. 0. Ferguson the executor of his will and the guardian of his minor children. He left a pre-emption claim, to which he had acquired patent, and a…
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