McKean v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Linn District Court. Action by plaintiff in error against Geo. A. Crawford, John J. Swifle, Amelia A. Swifle, and Anna R Massey, as defendants, to vacate and annul certain deeds of conveyance, and compel defendants to convey to plaintiff Wm. JR. MeKean, as trustee for himself and others, certain lands in Linn county.
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Error from Linn District Court. Action by plaintiff in error against Geo. A. Crawford, John J. Swifle, Amelia A. Swifle, and Anna R Massey, as defendants, to vacate and annul certain deeds of conveyance, and compel defendants to convey to plaintiff Wm. JR. MeKean, as trustee for himself and others, certain lands in Linn county. The petition alleges that plaintiff McKean, and nine other persons, in 1857, associated themselves together and organized the Montgomery Town Company, and laid out a town on the lands in controversy; that the plaintiff was elected president of said company; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe opinion of tbe court was delivered by
Sarford, J.:
Tbis was a proceeding in error brought to reverse tbe judgment of tbe district court, rendered upon the report of a referee, to whom all of tbe issues in tbe case below, both of fact and of law, were submitted for decision. No exceptions were taken to the findings of fact in said report; but to tbe conclusion of law, as found by the referee, objection was made by the plaintiff, and such objection was beard, upon a motion to set aside tbe report so far as it related to tbe said conclusion of law. But the court refused tbe motion to set…
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