Blumer v. Iowa Railroad Land Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court.— Hon. J. F. Oliver, Judge. Action to quiet title. Decree as prayed, from wbicli the defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
The forty acres of land in controversy is located within the place limits of the grant for the benefit of the Dubuque & Sioux City Bailroad Company, afterwards transferred to the Iowa Balls & Sioux City Bailroad Company, under the act of Congress approved May 15, 1856. The road was completed prior to 1872, and, though this tract was included in the list certified to the State, approval was delayed by the assertion of title to it under the swamp land act until 1878. In 1883 John Carraher applied to the local land office at Des Moines to enter it under the timber culture act, but his…
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