American Stave & Cooperage Co. v. Butler County

ADAMS, District Judge.

This is a proceeding to quiet the title to certain lands, known as “swamp lands,” which the complainant’s grantor, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad Company, claims to have acquired from the defendant county by three certain deeds, dated, respectively, January 31,1871, December 10,1874, and December 21, 1874. The considerations for these conveyances are found in two certain contracts entered into by and between Butler county *302and the railroad company, of dates, respectively, July 13, 1870,'-and December 28, 1872. These contract's, when read together,…