Anchor v. Howe
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Idaho
In. Equity. Bill by U. E. Anchor and others against Benjamin S. Howe and others to determine an adverse claim to public lands.
1Opinion of the Court
Beatty, District Judge.
It is alleged by the bill that this action is instituted in pursuance of the provisions of section 2326, Rev. St-., and that “complainants made their protest and adverse claim under oath and in due form of law, and filed the same in the United States land office, ” etc. The defendants plead, in abatement of the action, that no adverse claim was filed or allowed in such land office. It sufficiently appears that'an adverse claim iii due form wás presented to the land office for filing, but .was rejected because it did not appear therefrom that a survey of the disputed…
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