Miller v. Iowa Land Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monona Circuit Court. This is an action involving tbe title to some twenty-one hundred acres of land situated in Monona county.
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Appeal from Monona Circuit Court. This is an action involving tbe title to some twenty-one hundred acres of land situated in Monona county. The plaintiffs claim title through the Iowa Central Air Line Eailroad Company, under the original land grant act of Congress of May 15, 1856, and the act of the General Assembly of Iowa of July 14, 1856. The defendants claim title under the same acts, and the further acts of the General Assembly of March 17 and 26, 1860, and the act of Congress of June 2, 1864. Upon a trial by the court there was a decree entered for the plaintiffs. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEothrook, J.
i. public strucKon°of' foads! iaU" I. The acts of Congress and of the General Assembly of the State, under which the respective parties hereto claim title to the land in dispute, have several times been before this court. In the case of Courtright v. The Cedar Rapids & Missouri River R. Co., 35 Iowa, 386, these legislative acts are fully set forth. The various provisions thereof need not, therefore, be repeated here. This controversy involves a part of the same lands, the title to which was determined in that case, to-wit., the one hundred and twenty sections which it was held the Iowa…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Small v. C., R. I. & P. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1881
- Courtright v. Cedar Rapids & Missouri River R. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1872
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