Deloach v. Brownfield
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. John C..Murray Circuit Judge. The true object of the act of 20th January, 1853, was to enable any one who had paid for, and received a certificate for swamp lands to have his title perfected to the same.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. John C..Murray Circuit Judge. The true object of the act of 20th January, 1853, was to enable any one who had paid for, and received a certificate for swamp lands to have his title perfected to the same. If the certificate of Carroll was illegally issued, the defect was cured by the ratification of the act by the board of swamp land commissioners: or if not, any defect in the certificate was cured by the act of 20th January, 1855, enabling' the Governor to make deeds to swamp and overflowed lands. The powers of the board of swamp land…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice English
This case involves conflicting entries of swamp lands. The bill was filed by Deloach to establish the validity of the entry of Frazier, under whom he claims by assignment, and to cancel the entry of Brownfield and Watkins.
On the 7th of September, 1853, Frazier applied to David W. Carroll, as land agent for the Pine Bluff district, to purchase the lands in controversy, and others, with scrip issued to him for levee work, and obtained the certificate of Carroll that he had so applied.
On the 25th of December, 1833, he obtained a certificate from W. C. Butts, secretary of the board of swamp land…
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