Bennett v. Northern Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered hy

Dunbar, J.

This is an action brought by the appellants against the Northern Pacific Eailroad Company and Andrew F. Burleigh, receiver thereof, alleging in their complaint that they had settled upon, improved and cultivated the lands in question in compliance with the provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and that they offered to make preliminary homestead entries of said lands respectively before the register and receiver of the land office at Olympia, "W ashington, the same be-*535in g the land office of the district in which the lands…