Beckham v. Worthen

Mr. Just,ice Fairchild

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The land agent at Little Rock, on the 23d of May, 1859, exposed to public sale the north-east quarter of section thirty-three, in township two north, range eleven west, and Beckham purchased it, and now contends, in opposition to the claim presented in the bill, and to the decree of the court below, that his title is superior to that of.Worthen, who claims the land by virtue of an alleged sale of it to Baldwin, by the swamp land commissioners, on the llih of May, 1852.

Baldwin’s claim rests upon a certificate of application, different…