Legal Opinion
Cox v. Hart
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 2, 1923No. 71PublishedCited by 244 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutherland
This case involves conflicting claims to a tract of 160 acres of land in Imperial County (formerly San Diego .County), State of California. The. facts, so far as necessary to be stated, are as follows:
About the years 1854-1856 the body of public-lands, which includes the' tract in contróversy, was surveyed under the authority of the United States. No settlements upon these lands of any consequence were made until the -year 1900. In the interval the marks of the survey had so far disappedred as to render it practically -impossible to locate the lines -which the survey had estab-. lished. Noiie…
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