Weeks v. Bridgman
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP MINNESOTA. This was an action brought'by Charles A. Weeks against Coleman Bridgman in the District Court for the Seventh Judicial District of Minnesota under a statute of that State to determine adverse claims to vacant and unoccupied real estate.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP MINNESOTA. This was an action brought'by Charles A. Weeks against Coleman Bridgman in the District Court for the Seventh Judicial District of Minnesota under a statute of that State to determine adverse claims to vacant and unoccupied real estate. Judgment having been rendered for plaintiff, the cause was taken to the Supreme Court of Minnesota on appeal, the judgment reversed, and the cause remanded. 41 Minnesota, 352. The cause was again tried in the District Court by the court, a jury having been expressly waived, and judgment entered for…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice Fullee,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. .
The line of the road was definitely fixed JDecembér 30,1857;. the lands within the place limits then subject to the grant were thereby segregated from the public domain; and the grant took effect thereon. But under the granting act, lands to which preemption rights had attached, when the line was definitely fixed, were as much excepted therefrom • as if in a deed they had been excluded by the terms of the conveyance. And this was true in respect of applications for preemption' rejected by the local land…
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