Morrill v. Douglass
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Jaolcson District Court. Action by E. N. Morrill and W. W. Guthrie to quiet their title to the southeast quarter, of sec. 24, township 6, range 14, containing 160 acres of land in Jackson county.
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Error from Jaolcson District Court. Action by E. N. Morrill and W. W. Guthrie to quiet their title to the southeast quarter, of sec. 24, township 6, range 14, containing 160 acres of land in Jackson county. An action between the same parties, concerning other lands in the same county, is reported in 14 Kas. 293. The pleadings and proceedings in this action are almost identical with the pleadings and proceedings in that; (see 14 Kas., pp. 295 to 297.) Trial . at the April Term 1874. Plaintiffs showed a regular title from the government patent down to themselves, and that the land was vacant.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
This is a tax-title case involving the same questions as those presented in the case between the same parties heretofore decided by this court. (Morrill v. Douglass, 14 Kas. 293.) A motion for reargument was presented in that case, and heard at the same time with this. That motion has been overruled, and it is unnecessary to say more than that the reargument has not’succeeded in altering our views as then expressed.* It was a singular omission that the learned counsel never, in his brief, nor in his elaborate and extended argument, once…
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- Darling v. RodgersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1871
- Morrill v. DouglassSupreme Court of Kansas · 1875
- Patterson v. CarruthSupreme Court of Kansas · 1874
3Cited by8 opinions
- Roberts v. First National BankNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1899
- Belz v. BirdSupreme Court of Kansas · 1883
- Clarke v. TildenSupreme Court of Kansas · 1906
- Ewing v. BaldwinSupreme Court of Kansas · 1880
- Baughman v. HarveySupreme Court of Kansas · 1907
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