Bailey v. Sanders
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIECUIT COUET OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIECUIT. • The facts, which involve the right of a homesteader'to alienate the land he seeks to enter before .he has finally perfectedvcthe entry, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This is a suit to determine which of two claims to a tract of land m the State of Idaho is the better one. The tract is withib the ceded portion of the. Nez Perce Indian Reservation, which was brought within.the operation of -the homestead law by the act of August 15, 1894, 28 Stat. 286, 332, c. 290, Bailey, the plaintiff,.claims as the grantee once removed of William W. Hately, who made a preliminary entry of the tract in 1899, commuted the entry in 1901, and received the usual receipt and certificate. Sanders, .the defendant, claims ..-under an entry subsequently made and upon which he has…
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