McCune v. Essig
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the District of Washington.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
William McCune and his wife settled upon a quarter section of land in Lincoln county, Wash., under the homestead law of the United States, and on April 4, 1884, he filed, in the proper district land office, a claim to said land as a homestead. In the same year he died intestate, his widow, Sarah McCune, and his daughter, the appellant herein, surviving him. On December 17, 1889, Sarah McCune, then Sarah Donahue, made proof in the land office of full compliance with the requirements of the homestead law, and on March 6,1891, a patent was issued to her therefor, granting…
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