Olds v. Commissioner of State Land Office
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Schuyler S. Olds to compel William A. French, commissioner of the State land office, to permit the location of certain alleged swamp land. The Michigan Land & Lumber Company, Limited, intervened.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, C. J.
The relator asks a writ of mandamus to compel the commissioner of the State land office to permit the location of certain lands on the “St. Clair Flats,” so called, with certain scrip which he holds as assignee of the estate of William M. Ferry.
Act No. 338, Laws 1865, provided for the laying out and establishing of a State road from Ferrysburg, in Ottawa county, to the mouth of Black creek, in Muskegon county. Under the provisions of the act, the improvement was to be paid for by an appropriation of swamp lands, the provision being that for that portion of the work in Ottawa county the…
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