Iowa Railroad Land Co. v. Adkins
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Greene District Gou/rt. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover a tract of forty acres of land from the possession of defendant. The defendant filed a cross-bill, setting up an equitable title in the land, and asked the court to quiet the legal title m him. The cause was tried in equity on the defendant’s cross-bill, and a decree rendered, quieting the title to the land in the defendant. Plaintiff appeals. The facts of the case appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Ch. J.
— The land in dispute was claimed and selected by the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad Company, under the grant of lands to that company by Congress, *352as contained in the act of June 2d, 1864. (See 13 U. S. Statutes at Large, 95). It was duly certified to the railroad company by the Secretary of the Interior, as a part of said grant, on the 20th day of April, 1869, and was conveyed -by the' company to the plaintiff by deed, made September 15th, 1869. So that the plaintiff is the holder of the legal title fo the land, and that such legal title must prevail unless the…
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