Marysville Investment Co. v. Holle

I cannot agree with my brethren in their judgment in this case. The plaintiff showed by proper conveyances a title founded upon a patent from the Government of the United States to J. E. Clardy, probate judge of Marshall County, “in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants of the town site of Palmetto according to their respective interests’’ under the act of Congress of May 23, 1844.

Clardy, in the execution of this trust, by deed duly executed and delivered, conveyed the lands in controversy to F. J. Marshall, and others, members of the Palmetto Town Company. These grantees…