Fowler v. Wood
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wyandotte district court; E. L. Fischer, judge.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Burch, J.:
The action in the district court was one of ejectment and partition. In 1857, pursuant to treaty stipulations with the Wyandotte Indians, the United States patented to Silas Armstrong a tract of land, irregular in shape, lying in the fork of the Missouri and Kansas rivers north of Turkey creek, and containing some 274.7 acres. The land was low bottom-land, of *514the peculiar formation which characterizes the valley of the Missouri river in this region, and subject to the vicissitudes which result from the conduct of that capricious stream. By…
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