Memphis Land & Timber Co. v. Ford
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United. States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Statement by SANBORN, Circuit Judge: This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill brought by the appellant, the Memphis Land & Timber Company, to remove the cloud of the record of certain assignments of swamp-land certificates, and of certain deeds to the appellee, Mary S. Ford, from the title to some 17,000 acres of land in the state of Arkansas, which the appellant claimed to…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United. States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Statement by SANBORN, Circuit Judge: This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill brought by the appellant, the Memphis Land & Timber Company, to remove the cloud of the record of certain assignments of swamp-land certificates, and of certain deeds to the appellee, Mary S. Ford, from the title to some 17,000 acres of land in the state of Arkansas, which the appellant claimed to own. The appellee filed an answer in the nature of a cross bill, alleging that she was the equitable owner of the lands,…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
It is necessary to consider hut a single question in the determination of this case, and that is, can one who, ever since the year 18(50, has held original swamp-land certificates issued by the state of Arkansas, and assignments thereof from the original grantee, and who, ever since the year 3872, has held title by deed to all his interest in the land described in the certificates, but who never recorded any of these title papers until 1887, maintain any claim to an equitable interest in such lands, under the registry Jaws of the state of Arkansas, as against one who in 1883 purchased, in…
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