Bohall v. Dilla

Citations

• 114 U.S. 47
• 5 S. Ct. 782
• 29 L. Ed. 61
• 1885 U.S. LEXIS 1733

Syllabus

<p>To charge the holder of the legal title to land under a patent of the United States, as a, trustee of another, it must appear that, by the law properly adhiinistered in the Land Department, the title should have been awarded to the latter : it is not sufficient to show that there was error in adjudging the title to the patentee.</p> <p>Pre-emption laws require a residence both continuous and personal upon the tract, of the person who seeks to take advantage of them.</p> <p>The settler may be excused for temporary absences from the tract, caused by sickness, well-founded apprehensions of violence and other like enumerated causes.</p>