Haag v. State Ex Rel. Board of University & School Lands

VOGEL, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in an action to quiet title brought by the purchasers of the Northeast Quarter (NEJ4) and the Northwest Quarter (NWj4) of Section 36, Township 142,' Range 84, in Oliver County, purchased from the defendant State of North Dakota. The plaintiffs Haag claim to own the fee title to the property, free of any claims of the State or its lessee to coal underlying the land, while the State claims that its patents to the plaintiffs are void because the land in question was “coal land” which the State was forbidden to sell by its…