— This was an action of assumpsit in which Burget was the plaintiff. Plea, the general issue. The cause was submitted to the Court, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff.

The facts in this case necessary to be noticed are as follows: The plaintiff, in 1839 or 1840, made an improvement on a quarter section of land owned by the United States. The improvement consisted in ploughing a few acres of the land in a prairie, and enclosing with a fence the land so ploughed. In 1841, the defendant bought said quarter section of land of the United States, and took possession of it. In 1843, the plaintiff, defendant, and on ePomeroy, being together, the latter offered to let the defendant have certain rails (about 400), if he would pay the plaintiff for said improvement. The defendant then agreed to pay for the improvement, and afterwards made use of the rails.

The promise, as appears by the briefs of the counsel of the *578parties, was made to Burget, but the consideration, except improvement, moved from Pomeroy.

Assuming the consideration which moved from Pomeroy, to be insufficient to support the promise, the plaintiff would fail as the law was when the case of Boston v. Dodge, 1 Blackf. 19, was decided. But after that case a statute passed, and which was in force when the defendant’s promise was made, which enacts, “ that no contract made in consideration, either in whole or in part,-of the sale of any interest, real or supposed, in or to any land belonging to the United States, or for the occupancy thereof, or any improvement made thereon, shall, for that cause, be avoided or impeached,” &c. Stat. 1834, p. 60. There can be no doubt but that under this statute, the plaintiff has a right to recover, though it be considered that there was no consideration for the promise but the improvement on the land made by the plaintiff (1).

— The judgment is affirmed with costs.