Legal Opinion

Stockton v. Geissler

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1890PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Error from Wyandotte District Court. Ejectment. The facts are stated in the opinion. Judgment for plaintiff Geissler, on November 26, 1887. The defendants Stockton and Little bring the case here.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Strang, C.:

Action in ejectment, to recover the possession of lots 1 and 2, in block 127, in the old city of Wyandotte. Defendants answered by a general denial. *613The lots in question are a part of lands allotted by the Wyandotte commissioners, under treaty of January 31, 1855, ratified February 20, 1855, with the Wyandotte Indians, to John Beaver, and by John Beaver and Susan Beaver his wife to John McAlpine, trustee for the Wyandotte City Company, July 22, 1857. It is admitted that the plat of the city of Wyandotte covers the lots in question, and shows them to be embraced in the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Kansas Pacific Rly. Co. v. WoodSupreme Court of Kansas · 1880

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Worthley v. BurbanksIndiana Supreme Court · 1897
  2. Dickinson v. BalesSupreme Court of Kansas · 1898

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