Brun v. Mann
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. On October 11, 1901, the complainant, Mann, exhibited his bill in the court below against Kate E. Brun, the widow and the administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of Tillett, and against Kate E. Brun, and Jessie Wake-man, legatees under Tillett’s will, to subject two tracts of land one of which had been patented to Tillett in 1892 under the timber culture laws of the United States (U.…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. On October 11, 1901, the complainant, Mann, exhibited his bill in the court below against Kate E. Brun, the widow and the administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of Tillett, and against Kate E. Brun, and Jessie Wake-man, legatees under Tillett’s will, to subject two tracts of land one of which had been patented to Tillett in 1892 under the timber culture laws of the United States (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1534, 1535; Act March 4, 1896, c. 40, § 4, 20 Stat. 113, 114) and had been devised by him to…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
i The real controversy between the parties to this suit is whether or not the lands patented to Tillett in 1892 are exempt from liability to pay the judgment in favor of Mann, which is founded on Tillett’s wrongful taking and conversion of the plaintiff’s cattle in 1881. The acts of Congress under which Tillett secured the lands provide that no land _ acquired thereunder shall be liable for the satisfaction of any “debt contracted prior to the issuance” in the one case of the patent (2 U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1398, § 2296; Act May 20, 1862, c. 75, § 4,12 Stat. 393), and in the other of the…
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