Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y Co. v. Hemenway

Ladd, O. J. —

1 *6012 3 4 *6025 *599The legal title to the 40 acres of land in controversy remained in the United States until the patent was issued to the state of Iowa, September 21, 1893, and in the state until conveyed to the plaintiff, November 15, 1895, under the provisions of chapter 21 of the Acts of the 17th General Assembly. The right to it was ac"quired under the act of congress entitled “An act for a grant of lands to the state of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of a railroad in said state,” approved May 12, 1864. See copy in Bowne v. Bilsland, 83 Iowa, 162. The plaintiff…