Cochran v. Cobb as Land Com'r & Cochran
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEALS from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. F. T. Vaughan, Circuit Judge. 1. The lands were bought and paid for in 1873 while the Levee bond act was supposed to have been in force and before the passage of the act of Deo. 14, 1874 prohibiting the Treasurer from receiving levee bonds.
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APPEALS from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. F. T. Vaughan, Circuit Judge. 1. The lands were bought and paid for in 1873 while the Levee bond act was supposed to have been in force and before the passage of the act of Deo. 14, 1874 prohibiting the Treasurer from receiving levee bonds. Woodward et al v. Campbell, 39 Ark. 580, is not in point, because in that case notes were given for the deferred payments, and the payments were made after the passage of the act of Dec. 14. In this case the transaction was an executed one on the part of the purchaser, and the State was simply a trustee. Plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
In the first of these eases, both between the same parties, it was alleged that one John M. Peck had, in 1873, purchased from the State 440 acres of swamplands and had paid the price therof $330, to the Commissioner of Immigration and State Lands, who thereupon gave the purchaser a certificate of purchase, acknowledging the receipt of the purchase money in Arkansas Levee Bonds; that Peck had in 1877 transferred said certificate to the petitioner, who had produced the same to the Commissioner and demanded a patent deed for the lands, but his request had been denied. And the prayer was .that…
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