Small v. Rakestraw
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, District Court, Flathead County; D. F. Smith, Judge. ActioN by Walter W. Small against Samuel 0. Rakestraw. Judgement for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. A court of equity will not permit a nonjudicial or a quasi-judicial officer, in any proceedings before him, by tbe misconstruction of any law, to take property from one person, under the law entitled to it, and give it to another. . (Johnson v. Tows-ley, 13 Wall. 72; Sanford v..
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Appeal from, District Court, Flathead County; D. F. Smith, Judge. ActioN by Walter W. Small against Samuel 0. Rakestraw. Judgement for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. A court of equity will not permit a nonjudicial or a quasi-judicial officer, in any proceedings before him, by tbe misconstruction of any law, to take property from one person, under the law entitled to it, and give it to another. . (Johnson v. Tows-ley, 13 Wall. 72; Sanford v.. Sanford, 139 U. S. 642; Hawley v. Diller, 178 TJ. S. 476, 20 Sup. Ot. Rep. 986; Baldwin v. Starks, 107 TJ. S, 463, 465, 27 L, Ed. 526, 2 Sup. Ct. Rep;…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. COMMISSIONER CALLAWAY
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On demurrer to complaint. The substance of the complaint is that in a contest for a tract of land between the plaintiff here, Walter W. Small, and the defendant here, Samuel O. Rake-straw, before the land department, the secretary of the interior erroneously decided in favor of Rakestraw, and that, had it not been for the wrongful acts of the defendant, and the erroneous ruling of the secretary, patent for the land would have issued to plaintiff. The prayer of the complaint is that the defendant shall be decreed to. hold the title to…
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