Jones v. Tainter

This action was commenced in the district court for Meeker county, and was tried- before the court without a jury. The facts were substantially. as follows: The defendant Tainter furnished one Robinson Jones with a land warrant, which he used in paying the United States for certain land applied for and purchased by him under the preemption act of September 4,1841. To secure the payment of one hundred and seventy dollars, a part of the price of the warrant, said Jones on the same day he entered the land, after entering it, executed a mortgage upon the preempted premises, to Tainter, it being…