Doran v. Kennedy
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR' TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MINNESOTA. ' The facts, which involve the construction of Rev. Stat., § 2296, and the jurisdiction of the state probate court over the homestead entry of a deceased homesteader dying after full payment and before patent has issued, are stated in the opinion. The probate court had no jurisdiction over the land.
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ERROR' TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MINNESOTA. ' The facts, which involve the construction of Rev. Stat., § 2296, and the jurisdiction of the state probate court over the homestead entry of a deceased homesteader dying after full payment and before patent has issued, are stated in the opinion. The probate court had no jurisdiction over the land. The land involved in this case was not the homesteader’s property; the homesteader had no title in fact and none passed by the so-called deed of the administrator. The facts were matters of public record and the defendants were bound thereby,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Suit to quiet title to certain described lands brought by plaintiff in error against defendants in error. The parties were respectively plaintiff and defendants in the state courts and we shall so designate them.
The facts are as follows :
On November 12, 1904, Edward O. Norton made a homestead' entry under the laws of the United States of the land in controversy. On April 10, 1906, he duly made final proof upon his entry. September 6, 1906, he died, leaving the plaintiff and four others as next of kin and sole heirs at law.
The final receipt'of the Receiver of the United States Land Office was…
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