Griffin v. Iowa Homestead Co.

Cole J.

*283i estop ciaoVS-’ formance. *282The facts of this ease, as developed by the pleadings and proofs, are substantially these: The plaintiff *283claiming that, by actual occupation and improvement upon a certain one hundred and' sixty acres ^ ]and, included in the grant to the Dubuque and Pacific Bailroad Company, he held a valid claim thereto, he made application to the county judge of Webster county, where said land was situated, within the proper time, to prove his right, and did produce the requisite proof, and obtained from said county judge a certificate of the fact as provided for by…