Welch v. United States

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

On August 28, 1934, Andrew J. Welch and Cuba E. Welch, his wife, for an agreed consideration of $8,300, by warranty deed conveyed to the United States a tract of land in Clinton, Oklahoma, for a post office site. The deed contained the following provision :

“To Have and to Hold said described premises unto the said The United States of America, and its successors and assigns, forever, free, clear and discharged of and from all former grants, taxes, judgments, mortgages, mineral rights, easements, restrictions, leases, assessments, liens or encumbrances of whatsoever…