Harden v. Cullins
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. This was an action to quiet the title of a tract of one hundred and eighteen acres of land in Washoe County. The suit was originally commenced in that county, but after-wards transferred to Storey.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. This was an action to quiet the title of a tract of one hundred and eighteen acres of land in Washoe County. The suit was originally commenced in that county, but after-wards transferred to Storey. The judgment of the court below was to the effect that defendant was the owner of so much of the land claimed as lay within the boundaries of the Steamboat Springs Ranch, and the plaintiff the owner of the balance; denying the prayer of the complaint as to the former and granting it as to the latter. The plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whitman, J.
This case turns upon the findings and conclusions of thdistrict judge. Appellant claims that the conclusions have no sound basis in the facts found. Substantially, these are : That appellant’s grantor, in whose place, for all practical purpose of this action, appellant stands, was in July, 1863, tenant in common with respondent of four hundred and twenty-five acres of the public unsurveyed lands of the United States; and then and there so being, made, executed, and delivered to respondent a quitclaim deed for his interest therein. By consent, he was allowed to remain…
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