Magoon v. Brash

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUDD, C.J.

An original bill in equity was presented to us under tbe statute, Section 22 of Chapter 73, of “An Act to provide for tbe *205opening, improving and closing of highways,” passed by the Legislature of 1892, in which this Oourt, in case the title of any claimant to the proceeds of land taken for street opening be in dispute, was given jurisdiction to determine the party entitled to the fund. In this case the Minister of the Interior deposited in Oourt the sum awarded, to wit, $3,000 for the land and $1,000 for a house thereon. The bill was brought by J. A. Magoon,…