Legal Opinion

Bozeman v. Browning

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided November 15, 1876PublishedCited by 16 opinions

APPEAL from Clark Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. John A. Kingston, Circuit Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

English, Ch. J.:

About the year 1836, John Browning, a resident of Alabama, furnished his son, Joseph A. Browning, a young man about eighteen years of age, with $1,000, and sent him to Arkansas to purchase lands, directing him to take the title to the lands in his own name. It seems that he entered lands with the money in Clark County, and obtained patents therefor from the United States. He made appellant, Michael Bozeman, who had married his sister (of the whole blood) Lucy Ann, and settled in Clark County, his agent, to take charge of and pay taxes on the lands, they being situated in his…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Badger v. PhinneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1819
  2. Bool v. MixNew York Supreme Court · 1837
  3. Jefford's Adm'r v. Ringgold & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1844
  4. Blankenship v. StoutIllinois Supreme Court · 1860
  5. Bailey v. BarnbergerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1850

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Burdett v. MaySupreme Court of Missouri · 1889
  2. Davie v. PadgettSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
  3. Spencer v. Lyman Falls Power Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1938
  4. Beattie v. WhippleIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  5. Crockett Motor Co. v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1928

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