Allen v. Cerro Gordo County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jasper District Court. The plaintiff filed Ms petition in the district court of Polk county, praying the specific performance of the contract hereinafter set out, entered into between the county of Cerro Gordo and P. C. D. McKay.
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Appeal from Jasper District Court. The plaintiff filed Ms petition in the district court of Polk county, praying the specific performance of the contract hereinafter set out, entered into between the county of Cerro Gordo and P. C. D. McKay. The petition alleges the performance of the contract on the part of McKay; that by reason thereof a large sum of money, large quantities of land, and scrip for large quantities of land were secured to said county; that the plaintiff and others have become owners of undivided portions of the consideration to which McKay became entitled, and have repeatedly…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
The swamp and overflowed lands of this State were granted to the State by act of congress of September 28, 1850. 9 U. S. Stat. at Large, 519.
1. Corporation municipal: county: real estate: incidental powers. By the act of March 2, 1855 (10 Stat. at Large, p. 634), it was provided “ that upon due proof by the authorized agent of the State or States, before the commissioner of the general land office, that any of the lands purchased * * * * were swamp and overflowed lands, within the true intent and meaning of the act aforesaid, the purchase-money shall be paid over to said State or States; and…
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