Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees v. State ex rel. Moore

Two propositions are particularly stressed on the suggestion of error:(1) That in applying the rule that a ‘ ‘ patent ’ ’ to public land carries with it the presumption that all of the legal prerequisites necessary to its issuance have been “complied with,” to the absence from the record of the list of lands required by section 7, chapter 34, Laws of 1852, to be furnished by the secretary of state to the commissioners of the Southern district of Pearl River, we have necessarily overruled Hardy v. Hartman, 65 Miss. 509, 4 So. 545, wherein it was held that a patent issued to the Pearl River…