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| Edition: | Maynard v. Hill, as lots 9, 10, 13, and 14, of section 4, and lots 6, 7, 8, and 9, of section 5, in township 24 north, range 4 east, Willamette meridian The case comes here on appeal from a judgment of the supreme court of the territory, sustaining the defendants' demurrer, and dismissing the complaint The material facts, as disclosed by the complaint, are briefly these: In 1828, David S Maynard and Lydia A Maynard intermarried in the state of Vermont, and lived there together as husband and wife until 1850, when they removed to Ohio The plaintiffs, Henry C Maynard and Frances J Patterson, are their children, and the only issue of the marriage David S Maynard died intestate in the year 1873, and Lydia A Maynard in the year 1879 In 1850 the husband left his family in Ohio and started overland for California, under a promise to his wife that he would either return or send for her and the children within two years, and that the mean time he would send her the means of support He left her without such means, and never afterwards contributed anything for her support or that of the children On the 16th of September following he took up his residence in the territory of Oregon, in that part which is now Washington Territory, and continued ever afterwards to reside there On the 3d of April, 1852, he settled upon and claimed, as a married man, a tract of land of 640 acres, described in the bill, under the act of congress of September 27, 1850, 'creating the office of surveyor general of public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to settlers of the said public lands,' and resided thereon until his death On the 22d day of December, 1852, an act was passed by the legislative assembly of the territory, purporting to dissolve the bonds of matrimony between him and his wife The act is in these words: . |
| Source: | Maynard v. Hill from http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/125 |
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