American Emigrant Co. v. Rogers Locomotive Machine Works

This action was brought to quiet the title to certain tracts of land claimed by the plaintiff under the swamp-land grant, made by the act of congress approved September 28, 1850. The defendants claim title under the act of congress approved May 15, 1856, which granted land to the state of Iowa to aid in the construction of a railway from Dubuque to Sioux City. Of the land in controversy, the district court found and adjudged that two lots and fifteen forty-acre tracts belonged to the plaintiff, and that thirty-one such tracts belonged to the defendants.

I. The chains of title under which the…