State v. Sparrow
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Ingham. (Peck, J.) Bill to cancel patents of swamp lands. Defendants appeal. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The bill in this case is filed by the State for the cancellation of certain patents for lands issued to defendant Sparrow. The defendant company is a grantee of Sparrow.
These patents were issued under the authority of Act No. 130, Laws of 1883, and Act No. 84, Laws of 1885. Under the former act, 10,000 acres of swamp lands in the *265Lower Peninsula were' appropriated to aid in certain improvements in the county of Livingston. By the latter act, 13,800 acres were appropriated for a like purpose in the counties of Shiawassee and Clinton. These appropriations were of swamp lands not otherwise…
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