Cooper v. Roberts
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the circuit court of the United States for the district.of Michigan. It is stated in the opinion of the court.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the circuit court of the United States for the district.of Michigan. It is stated in the opinion of the court. Such ofi the points only as were included within the decision of the court will be noticed. ■- The counsel for the plaintiff in error first considered the questions which .arose relative to the act of 23d June, 1836, granting school lands to . Michigan. 1. Is it- simply a law in the ordinary meaning of the term, and, as such, repealable at the will'of the law-making power,, or does It belong to that class of laws which are legislative…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Campbell
delivered the opiniori of the', court..The plaintiff sued in ejéctmerit, to recover a portion of section No? 16, in township- No. 50 north, of range 39 west,-lying .within the fdineral district, south of Lake. Superior,' in Michigan.
His case affums’that this section had beeri appropriated by the United States to the State of Michigan for the use of schools, in their compact, by which that State became a member,of the Union; that the governor of Michigan issued, in November, 1851, to Alfred Williams, a piatent, evincing a sale of that section under the laws of Michigan, in February, 1851; that…
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