Ives v. Ely

SheRwood J.

This case is well presented in the statement thereof made by Judge Hooker, contained in the record, and before whom it was heard in the Eaton circuit in July, 1884, and which is as follows: The controversy in *570this case arises over a parcel of land which, in the original United States survey notes, is marked swamp land, lying in the county of Eaton. Subsequent to the Act of 1850, granting all swamp lands to the State, viz., in the year 1852, Horatio I. Lawrance entered the land at Ionia, receiving the usual certificate issued upon a cash entry. In 1854 the department canceled the…