Wheatley v. Griffin

Stayton, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellant against the appellee and her husband, John Griffin, to recover about one hundred and twenty-five acres of land which was formerly Cass county school land, and by supplemental petition he sought to recover the purchase money which he had paid.

It appears that in 1866 the appellee, she then being a widow with children, settled upon the land in controversy, buying a small improvement then on the land, knowing that it was school land belonging to Cass county, and intending to buy it when it should be placed upon the market.

In 1872…