Boyce v. Danz

The bill in this case is filed to have a certain parcel of land which has been patented by the United States to the defendant, decreed to be equitably the property of the complainant, and to be held by the defendant in trust for him. The complainant’s rights are rested upon the pre-emption laws of the United States, while the defendant relies upon his patent, and upon certain defects in complainant’s claim which are supposed to defeat it.

The facts in the case, as we find them established by the evidence, are as follows: Complainant went upon the premises, which he found unoccupied, some time…