Samson v. Smiley

In tbis case the controversy had been between one Samson and a certain Smiley, and tbe register and receiver had decided in favor of Smiley. Samson accordingly brought tbe case here. The ease differed, as this court considered, in no respect from the case just decided, but one, which was that when the register and receiver decided in favor of Smiley against Samson, in the contest for the right of pre-emption to the land, they did not give him a patent cerlifictae as they did to Towsley; The reason for this seemed to be that the contest between him and Samson was prosecuted immediately from…