Minnesota Supreme Court, 1913

Slocum v. Christianson

Slocum v. Christianson
Minnesota Supreme Court · Decided January 24, 1913
120 Minn. 528; 139 N.W. 599; 1913 Minn. LEXIS 706 (Minnesota Reports)

Slocum v. Christianson

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

This action involves the same questions as were presented in Kinyon v. Christianson, supra, page 335, 139 N. W. 597, and the same conclusion is reached. The judgment appealed from is affirmed.

The land involved in both actions is the northwest quarter of section 13, township 119, range 40, Chippewa county. Defendant settled upon the land and tendered a filing upon the quarter section. After the second selection of the railroad company had been approved by the Interior Department, defendant again tendered a homestead application, limited to three 40-acre tracts of the quarter section. It is contended that by this action defendant waived and abandoned all rights under the former application so far as concerns the 40-acre tract not included in the last application. We do not sustain this contention. Defendant’s right to the whole quarter section became vested by his first application, if at all, and by that he must stand or fall. This action involves the title to the three forties referred to, while the 40-acre tract not included in the subsequent homestead application is alone involved in the Kinyon case.

Judgment affirmed.

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