Jones v. Green
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Hempstead Circuit Court. Hon. J. K. Young, Circuit Judge. On the second declaration of law prayed by defendant, see .22 Ark., 136; 9 Id., 112. On the 3d : The act of congress makes an express limitation upon the disposal of the lands, (see act, Gantt’s Digest),and the act of the legislature granting the lands to the •C. & F. R. R., is subject to all the conditions nnd limita tions contained in the act of congress.
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APPEAL from Hempstead Circuit Court. Hon. J. K. Young, Circuit Judge. On the second declaration of law prayed by defendant, see .22 Ark., 136; 9 Id., 112. On the 3d : The act of congress makes an express limitation upon the disposal of the lands, (see act, Gantt’s Digest),and the act of the legislature granting the lands to the •C. & F. R. R., is subject to all the conditions nnd limita tions contained in the act of congress. Acts 1856, p. 4; Acts Cong., July 28, 1866, and Resolutions of Cong., Mich 3, 1869 and May 9, 1870 in Gantt’s Dig., and 1 Black. U. 8., 502. On the 4th, 5th and 6th…
1Opinion of the CourtEakin, J.
This is an action of ejectment, begun by theadministratrix of W. W. Andrews against William Norman to recover the N. E. quarter of section eight, in town•ship twelve, south of range twenty-three west; a tract of land which was included in the grant of lands from the United States, made to the state of Arkansas on the ninth of February, 1853, to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Mississippi river, opposite the mouth of the Ohio, .by way of Little Rock to the Texas boundary near Fulton. The conditions of said grant were not complied with, and the lands by the terms of it would have…
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