Bullock

This action was brought to determine an adverse claim to a piece of land described as the south half of the southeast quarter of a certain thirty-sixth section. The plaintiffs claim the land under a certificate of purchase issued by the proper officers of the state, and the defendant claims it under a certificate of homestead entry issued by the proper officers of the United States. The court below gave judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiffs appeal. The case is brought here on the judgment roll.

It appears, from the findings, that prior to the 21st of December, 1871, the greater part of the exterior lines of the- township in which the land in question is situated *592 had been run and established by the United States, and some of the sections therein had been ascertained and established. Lines had also been run on the north, south, and west sides of section 36, and section corners had been established at the ends of each of these lines, and quarter-section corners at the middle of each one of them. But the east line of this section had not been run, and no quarter-section corner bad been established upon it. And on the plat of the survey of the township filed in the local…