Johnson v. Bridal Veil Lumbering Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This is a suit by D. S. Johnson to enjoin the Bridal Veil Lumbering Company from constructing its railroad across plaintiff’s land.
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Multnomah County: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This is a suit by D. S. Johnson to enjoin the Bridal Veil Lumbering Company from constructing its railroad across plaintiff’s land. The material facts are that on November 22, 1889, plaintiff was duly qualified to enter government lands under the homestead law of the United States, and on that day settled on the south half of the north half of section twenty-five, in township one, north of range five, east of the Willamette Meridian, which was embraced within the limits of the land granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company by the joint…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
1. Defendant contends that because the surface of the land embraced in plaintiff’s entry is broken and heavily covered with valuable timber, it is not subject to entry under the homestead laws of the United States, and that no title thereto can be acquired except under the act of congress of June 3, 1878 (20 U. S. Statutes, 89). That act provides “that surveyed public lands of the United States within the states of California, Oregon, and Nevada, and in Washington Territory, not included within military, Indian, or other reservations of the United States, valuable chiefly for timber, but…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Shepley v. CowanSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Hastings & Dakota Railroad v. WhitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- United States v. BuddSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Sturr v. BeckSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Larsen v. Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1890
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3Cited by9 opinions
- United States v. PayneSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Brown v. BakerOregon Supreme Court · 1901
- United States v. HansonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1909
- State v. Red River Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
- McCorkell v. HerronSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
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