Webb v. Burnam

Opinion by

THREADGILL, C.

John Traugott Mirtschin was a native German and came to Beaver county, Oklahoma Territory, prior to 1903, ana on December 4, 1903, the United States Government issued to him a patent to the S. E. % of S. E. 14 of section 10 and S. % of S. W. % of section 11, township 3 north., range 24 west, in said county. In 1906, ihe sold and deeded 40 acres to one John Goetzinger. He occupied the 80 acres in controversy as his home and made his living farming. He was eccentric and refused to pay his taxes, giving as his reasons that the government deeded him the land and no one…