Lamb v. Farrell

This is a suit in equity to remove a cloud from the plaintiff’s title to the real estate described in the bill. The bill alleges that the plaintiff is the owner in fee-simple of the land; sets forth how he acquired it, and exhibits his muniments of title; alleges that the land is unoccupied; that the defendant claims title by vir* tue of a deed from the state land commissioner, which invests him with the apparent legal title, but that, in fact, said deed conveyed no title, the state having none to convey; that the only pretense of claim the state had to the land was that it was struck off to…