Dowding v. Ditmore

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

July 31, 1899, appellant applied to the Commissioner of the General Land Office to purchase the land in controversy, section 490, as an actual settler on the north half of section 456, both of which were awarded to him. Thereafter appellee settled on section 490, and made application to purchase it, disputing the validity of the sale to appellant, presumptively upon the ground that he had either never been, or had ceased to be, an acual settler in good faith on section 456, for in every other respect both sales to, appellant were regular, and no forfeiture of…