Shepley v. Cowan

This is a suit in equity, brought, according to the practice obtaining in Missouri, to settle the conflicting claims of the parties, arising from their respective patents, to a fractional section of land comprising thirty-seven acres and two-fifths of an acre,-situated in that State. The plaintiffs assert title to the premises under, a patent issued to William M. McPherson by the governor of the State, bearing date on the 27th of February, 1850, purporting to .be for lands selected under the eighth section of the act of Congress of Sept. 4, 1841, entitled “ An act to appropriate the proceeds…