Staininger v. Andrews
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District- Court of the Seventh Judicial District, Nye County. Ejectment for a tract of about one hundred and sixty acres of land on Musquito Creek. The complaint was in the usual form.
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Appeal from the District- Court of the Seventh Judicial District, Nye County. Ejectment for a tract of about one hundred and sixty acres of land on Musquito Creek. The complaint was in the usual form. The answer of George Andrews contained a general denial, and also' set up ownership and possession in his brother, Thomas Andrews, up to the time of his death, previous to the commencement of the suit; and since that time, ownership in his estate and possession in H. M. Barnes, his administrator, and in the defendant in subordination to such administrator. A petition of intervention, setting up…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lewis, J.
There seem to be but two methods in this State of acquiring title sufficient to maintain ejectment to public land not surveyed or brought into the market by the General Government, and these are : Pirst — By a compliance with requirements of “ An Act prescribing the mode of maintaining and defending possessory actions for public lands in this State,” Laws of 1864-5, page 343 ; and Second — By actual possession or occupation of such land.
The plaintiff in this action does not pretend to have complied with the requirements of the law above referred to, and hence his *67title,-…
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