Elmondorff v. Carmichael

equate iii terms to vest the estate; and all the rest of the points d$fided by the,pourt below, rest upon the question, whether, as the grants of the defendants had all issued previous to the death of Robertas S. Brandtz, and the consequent escheat thereupon to the government, the title when escheated inured to the benefit of these junior grantees, so that government could not grant it again unless subject to these posterior grants as contended for by the defendants; or whether the govern-meat took the estate as an entire thing, unaffected by junior patents, and could grant it again, paying…