Norton v. Frederick
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Swift county by a grantee of Russell Sage, as assignee in trust and trustee of the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company, to recover possession of certain land between ten and twenty miles distant from that railroad which had been selected by Russell Sage in lieu of place land from free public land which the United States had not sold, reserved or otherwise appropriated, and to which the right of homestead or pre-emption settlement had not…
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Action in the district court for Swift county by a grantee of Russell Sage, as assignee in trust and trustee of the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company, to recover possession of certain land between ten and twenty miles distant from that railroad which had been selected by Russell Sage in lieu of place land from free public land which the United States had not sold, reserved or otherwise appropriated, and to which the right of homestead or pre-emption settlement had not attached. The separate answer of Edward Frederick alleged that neither plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor nor grantor, had…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
In 1866 the congress of the United States, by an act approved July fourth of that year (Act July 4, 1866, c. 168, 14 St. 87), granted to the state of Minnesota to aid in the construction of a railroad from Hastings to the western boundary of the state certain lands, consisting of the odd-numbered sections within a belt of ten miles on each side of the road when definitely located. The act also provided for the selection of lands within twenty miles of the road as so located to supply any deficiency in the place limits arising from a disposal thereof by the government before the location of…
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