State v. Red River Lumber Co.

Wilson, G. J.

In about the year 1899 the state of Minnesota assumed to sell 280 acres of land in the county of Beltrami, and the same was purchased by E. W. Backus, who then paid the purchase price of the timber thereon and 15 per cent of the purchase price of the land. Thereafter seven usual state certificates of sale were executed, in the form provided by law, and delivered to the purchaser.

At the time of advertising this sale, and at the time of the sale, there was existing, in the office of the state land commissioner, a statement that there was pine on several of the seven 40-acre tracts…