Rannels v. Rowe
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. This was a suit brought by Rannels to quiet his title to several thousand acres of wild and unoccupied lands in the state of Arkansas. All of the parties interested in the controversy claim title through Edmund McGehee. Part of the property in controversy was patented directly to him as swamp lands in 1858 by the state of Arkansas.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. This was a suit brought by Rannels to quiet his title to several thousand acres of wild and unoccupied lands in the state of Arkansas. All of the parties interested in the controversy claim title through Edmund McGehee. Part of the property in controversy was patented directly to him as swamp lands in 1858 by the state of Arkansas. The remainder was patented by the state to the heirs and legal representatives of McGehee in 1883, 18 years after his death, but this difference is immaterial since, if for no…
1Opinion of the CourtHook, Circuit Judge
The deeds to the railroad company, under which complainant claims, were executed by three executors and they contained covenants of warranty by them in their representative capacities. One of the ex*299ecutors was the widow of the deceased owner of the lands and under the will she took a half interest therein. The deeds were void as executors’ conveyances because no authority to make them had been procured from the court having jurisdiction; but they nevertheless operated as conveyances of the widow’s individual interest. This results from the doctrine of estoppel. A trustee acting within his…
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