Legal Opinion

Weeks v. Bridgman

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 30, 1891Published

After the decision of the former appeal in this action, (41 Minn. 352,) it was again tried in the district court for Stearns county, before Baxter, J., who ordered judgment for defendant, which was entered, and the plaintiff appealed.

1Opinion of the Court

Vanderburgh, J.1

The principal questions involved in this appeal were, upon full consideration, determined when the case was here before. 41 Minn. 352, (43 N. W. Rep. 81.) We do.not deem it necessary to reconsider them. The material facts, and the acts of congress under which the parties assert their claims, are set forth in the opinion as reported. The record now before us presents subtantially the’ same case as before. The defendant, however, relies upon a single additional finding of fact, which it is claimed shows that the preemption claim of Brott, under whom defendant derives title, was…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Leavenworth, Lawrence, & Galveston Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  2. Hastings & Dakota Railroad v. WhitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
  3. Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. DunmeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
  4. Quinby v. ConlanSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  5. Weeks v. ColemanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889

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