Brown v. Harris

JAMES, Chief Justice.

The facts upon which the appeal is submitted are as follows:

I. The tract of land in respect to which this action was brought was patented to “Jacob de Cordova, trustee of the German Emigration Company, and J. J. Giddings, assignee of Frederick Stoppelberg, the patent calling for 320 acres (describing the same by field notes) in Mason County, * * * and reciting that it was by virtue of certificate number 251, issued to said Stoppelberg by the commissioner of Fisher and Miller’s colony, June 6, 1850, and transferred to John L. Darragh January 9, 1854, and by said Darragh…