Cramer v. Keller
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Adair Circuit Court. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge. The executive department of the United States had no right or authority to cancel the patent issued to the state of Missouri and issue one in lieu thereof to Nancy A. Brandon.
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Appeal from Adair Circuit Court. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge. The executive department of the United States had no right or authority to cancel the patent issued to the state of Missouri and issue one in lieu thereof to Nancy A. Brandon. Title was fully vested in the state of Missouri and she could not be divested thereof by the executive officer, and the trial court had no right to take into consideration whether or not same were swamp or overflowed lands when selected or patented, neither should judgments be rendered for rents and damages against defendants, McKee and Melton. Baikroad v.…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.
— This is an action of ejectment for a parcel of land in Adair county.
Plaintiffs derive title to the land from Nancy Brandon, who entered it at the local United States land *281office on the twelfth of Jnne, 1835. Pursuant to that entry a patent was issued to her, dated the twenty-fourth of December, 1874. The land was patented to the state, under the act of congress of September 28, 1850, donating swamp and overflowed lands to the different states where located, on the thirtieth of July, If 58, and by the state to Adair county in 1869. The defendants derive title from the county. On this state…
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