Corbett v. Wood

Vanderburgh, J.1

The pleadings admit that one William F. Corbett entered by pre-emption the land in controversy under the laws, of the United States, and received a patent certificate on or about the 16th day of July, 1851, and that he conveyed an undivided half thereof to the plaintiff on the 13th day of January, 1852. And the complaint alleges that one Charles Webb, under whom defendants claim, some time in the year 1853 fraudulently and wrongfully entered upon the premises, and, fraudulently colluding with other par*510ties, thereafter procured a pre-emption entry of said land, and a patent to…