Wulf v. Manuel
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, First Judicial District, Lends and Clarice County. The cause was tried before Blake, C. J. Tbe appellant insists that tbe court erred: First, in nonsuit-ing him upon bis cross-complaint. Second, in refusing to non-suit the plaintiff.
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Appeal from, First Judicial District, Lends and Clarice County. The cause was tried before Blake, C. J. Tbe appellant insists that tbe court erred: First, in nonsuit-ing him upon bis cross-complaint. Second, in refusing to non-suit the plaintiff. After the appellant was naturalized his status was that of a citizen, and such naturalization had a retroactive effect, and became a waiver of all liability of forfeiture and a confirmation of his former title, and entitled him to a recognition in court as a naturalized citizen, the same as if he had been naturalized before the suit was commenced.…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Witt, J.
This action is in the ordinary form of a contest between two claimants of a quartz lode mining claim upon the lands of the United States, to determine the right of defendant to proceed in the United States land office for patent thereto. On November 18, 1887, the defendant, Moses Manuel, made application in the land office for patent for the Marshal Ney Mining Claim. The plaintiff, Ivur Wulf, filed his adverse claim to such application, basing his contest upon his right to the premises by virtue of their location and possession as the Columbia Mining Claim, whereupon the parties were remanded *283…
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