Wills v. Wood
Supreme Court of Kansas
JfiJrroy from Wyandotte District Court. Action brought July 21, 1874, by Willis Wills, Jr., and «other heirs of Willis Wills, against George B. Wood, and numerous other defendants. Trial by the court, in July, 1876, when the court made findings of facts as follows: “1. That Willis Wills, sen., the ancestor of these plaintiffs, did, in 1854, file his intent to preempt the land in suit, in the proper land office.
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JfiJrroy from Wyandotte District Court. Action brought July 21, 1874, by Willis Wills, Jr., and «other heirs of Willis Wills, against George B. Wood, and numerous other defendants. Trial by the court, in July, 1876, when the court made findings of facts as follows: “1. That Willis Wills, sen., the ancestor of these plaintiffs, did, in 1854, file his intent to preempt the land in suit, in the proper land office. That afterward one Silas Armstrong obtained a patent from the United Stales to the same land, with other land adjoining thereto. “2. That to enable the said Willis Wills, (together…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
Statement of facts. This action resembles in many things that .of Yeamans v. James, 27 Kas. 195, and is, like that, a controversy respecting certain lands in Wyandotte reserve No. 1, which were patented in 1857 to Silas Armstrong. It appeared in that case, as in this, that there were several settlers occupying different portions of this reserve, between whom and Armstrong, the patentee, a dispute arose as to title. One David E. James was employed by the settlers as an attorney to look after their interests. They all signed a power of…
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