Fenn v. Kinsey

Fenn sued Kinsey in ejectment to recover certain lands in Kent county, which under the congressional land grant of 1856, and the State law of 1857, had been set apart, by the proper selection, as appropriated to the aid of a railroad from Owosso to Grand Haven. The plaintiff claimed title under conveyance from William E. Bowes, who claimed under grant from the Port Huron & Lake Michigan Eailway Company, to which company the land had been granted by the Board of Control and the Governor acting in pursuance of their grant, in 1873. We held this action of the Board of Control and of the Governor…