Butler v. Davis
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Lake, Oh. J. The case is stated in the opinion. If the deed from Galligher to Patton fail, the conveyances subsequent to it in the defendants’ chain of title fail, and their claim to the property in question is ended.
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Error to the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Lake, Oh. J. The case is stated in the opinion. If the deed from Galligher to Patton fail, the conveyances subsequent to it in the defendants’ chain of title fail, and their claim to the property in question is ended. The plaintiff objected to the admission of the deed, because the description in it did not describe-the premises in suit; and because it did not describe any property, and was void for uncertainty. While naming a township and range, there was no reference to a meridian, town, city, village, county, or state. If…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
John IT. Galligher entered at the United States land office at Omaha, Nebraska, the south half of the northwest quarter and -the north half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-five, in township fifteen, north of range twelve east. The date of the entry does not appear, but a patent was issued therefor to Galligher on the second day of July, 1860.
On the 13th day of May, 1857, Galligher, in Douglas county, Nebraska, executed and delivered to A. M. Patton, of the State of Kentucky, a warranty deed for the tracts of land above described; which deed, on the same day, was filed for record in…
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