State v. Lewis

The only difference in principle between this case and that of State of Mississippi v. Mrs. Ida K. Roell et al., 192 Miss. 873, 7 So. (2d) 867, this day decided, is in respect to the date of the issuance of the patents under which the appellees respectively claim; the patent in the instant case having been issued after the effective date of Chapter 309', Laws of 1940, the constitutionality of which is upheld in the other case. The demurrer in the present case challenges both the constitutionality of the above-mentioned statute and denies its applicability in a proceeding to confirm and quiet…