Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-03 | Page 14 | D.A. Beery Loses in Land Contest

D. A. BEERY LOSES IN LAND CONTEST Commissioner of Land Office Decides He Was Merely a Trespasser on Public Domain. . A decision of the register and receiver of the local United States land oflice in the easo of David A. Beery against William Wil-liam E. YV'hltlock, In which they found for the defendant on a land contest, was upheld by the commissioner of the land office when appealed to him, the copy of the decision reaching tho local office yesterday. Whltlock filed upon a homestead 'near Cedar Fork, in Utah county. May 122 1911. January 21, 1913. a contest was tiled by Beery, who claimed that he and Ids "predecessors had cultivated practically the south half of the land for a period of forty years aud had owned It under a towns! tc patent. The land office register and receiver held that Beery and his predecessors wore merely trespassers on government land and had no rights to the homestead.