City of Oklahoma City v. Hill Bros.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District C-ourt of Canadian County; before John C. Tarsney, District Judge. STATEMENT OF FACTS. Action for damages for trespass. Judgment was had for plaintiffs for the sum of $11,040.50, from which defendants appeals. This case grows out of an alleged forcible entry by the city of Oklahoma City, through its officers, upon lots 40 and 41, in block 23, in the city of Oklahoma City.
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Error from the District C-ourt of Canadian County; before John C. Tarsney, District Judge. STATEMENT OF FACTS. Action for damages for trespass. Judgment was had for plaintiffs for the sum of $11,040.50, from which defendants appeals. This case grows out of an alleged forcible entry by the city of Oklahoma City, through its officers, upon lots 40 and 41, in block 23, in the city of Oklahoma City. The forcible entry and detainer case brought by the Hills was before this court and decided in 4 Okla. 521, where many of the facts of the case are stated. This case was brought as an action for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Bierer, J.:
Error is assigned to the action of the court in excluding from the evidence the deed issued by the townsite board on October 18, 1893, to the city of Oklahoma City. The gist of the argument contained in the brief of counsel in support of this claim is contained in the following language :
“We maintain that, the deed having been issued in due form by the trustees, holding title and clothed with an authority to convey the same, it is to be presumed that it was regularly and properly issued until the contrary is made to appear by one having a better right in a…
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