Wood v. Beach
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. This case resembles those immediately preceding in that the plaintiff, now defendant in error, claiming title to a certain tract by deed from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, brought his action in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, to recover possession of the land.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS. This case resembles those immediately preceding in that the plaintiff, now defendant in error, claiming title to a certain tract by deed from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, brought his action in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, to recover possession of the land. Judgment wras. rendered in his favor in that court, which judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State, and from that court the case has been brought here on a wrrit of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The land in controversy is in an odd-numbered section, and within the indemnity limits of the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad, and also within the like limits of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. The tract was selected, certified to the State, and by it patented to the railway company. . The selection was made on August 8, 1872, and approved April 10, 1872, and the deed from the State was on May 9, 1873. Within the decision in Kansas City, Lawrence &c. Railroad v. The Attorney General, 118 U. S. 682, the legal title passed to the railway company. Mary E. Wood, the…
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