Heydenfeldt v. Daney Gold and Silver Mining Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada. This is an action of ejectment brought, by Heydenfeldt in the District Court of the First Judicial District of Nevada, against the Daney Gold and Silver Mining Company. The case was tried by the court, which found the following facts : — On the fourteenth day of July, 1868,- the.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada. This is an action of ejectment brought, by Heydenfeldt in the District Court of the First Judicial District of Nevada, against the Daney Gold and Silver Mining Company. The case was tried by the court, which found the following facts : — On the fourteenth day of July, 1868,- the. State of Nevada' issued to one William Webelhuth its patent for. the west half of the south-west quarter of section 16, township 16 north, range 21 east (lying in Lyon County, State of Nevada), -Mount Diablo base' and meridian, containing eighty acres, according to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
The validity of the patent from the State under which the plaintiff claims title rests on the assumption that sections 16 and 36, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, and whether containing minerals or not, were granted to Nevada for the support of common schools by the seventh section of the Enabling Act, approved March 21, 1864, 13 Stat. 32, which’is as follows: “That sections numbered 16 and 36 in every township, and where such sections have been sold or otherwise disposed of by any act of Congress, other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than one quarter-section, and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Schulenberg v. HarrimanSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Heydenfeldt v. Daney Gold & Silver Mining Co.Nevada Supreme Court · 1875
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