Alaska & N. W. T. T. Co. v. Bernhoffer
District Court, D. Alaska
This is a suit by the plaintiffs against the defendants to have restitution of lot 8, block 24, town of Skagway, with damages for its detention.
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This is a suit by the plaintiffs against the defendants to have restitution of lot 8, block 24, town of Skagway, with damages for its detention. Plaintiffs allege that they are the owners of said lot; that they have been the owners of it since July 3, 1§96; that it is embraced within United States amended survey No. 13, granted by United States patent June 5, 1902, to plaintiffs and their grantor; that, while they were such owners so seised and possessed, the defendants did in 1898 wrongfully enter upon the same and oust the plaintiffs and their grantor therefrom, and have ever since…
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
It was conceded upon the trial that the lot in controversy is embraced within the United States amended survey No. 13, and that all the land embraced within such survey, amounting to 58.442 acres, was by a patent issued June 5, 1902, granted to J. Bernard Moore, the grantor of plaintiffs, under the Trading and Manufacturing Site Act.
•It appears by the evidence that J. Bernard Moore had prior to August, 1897, entered a larger tract of land, including that embraced within this survey, under' the Trading and Manufacturing Site Act; that, before any other action was taken…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Tyee Consolidated Mining Co. v. LangstedtCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1905
- Valentine v. McGrathDistrict Court, D. Alaska · 1910