Collins v. County of Dallas
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dallas District Court. The plaintiff claims that on the 25th day of June, 1857, he made proof of improvement upon the east half of the southwest quarter.of section nineteen, in township No. eighty, range No. twenty-six, before L. D. Burns, the county judge of Dallas county, by testimony fully satisfactory and in accordance with the law and the rulings of the county judge, that he then offered to pay the pre-emption money, and has ever since been ready and willing…
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Appeal from Dallas District Court. The plaintiff claims that on the 25th day of June, 1857, he made proof of improvement upon the east half of the southwest quarter.of section nineteen, in township No. eighty, range No. twenty-six, before L. D. Burns, the county judge of Dallas county, by testimony fully satisfactory and in accordance with the law and the rulings of the county judge, that he then offered to pay the pre-emption money, and has ever since been ready and willing to pay into the county treasury the sum of money required to be paid under the' pre-emption laws for said land.…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
i. swamp emptíón?6 I. The testimony in this case quite clearly shows that on the 22d day of May, 1857, the plaintiff applied to L. D. Burns, the County Judge of Dallas county, to pre-empt the land in question under the provisions 'of the law then in force relative to the sale and disposition' of swamp lands granted to the counties. Revision, sections 973, 974 and 975. On the 25th day of June, 1857, he filed the proper proofs of his improvement, and became entitled to a certificate of pre-emption upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. At the time of filing the proofs,…
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