State v. Sparrow

In this case the title of the lands patented to Mr. Sparrow under Act No. 130, Laws of 1883, must be considered as adjudicated by this Court in Sparrow v. Commissioner of State Land-Office, 56 Mich. 567, and cannot now be disturbed. I am free to say, however, that, if the question were an open one, I should adopt the views of the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Campbell in that case; believing them to be in accordance with the plain letter of the Constitution, as applied to the clear intent and purpose of the legislative act in question. The act of 1885 has never been passed upon by this…