Iowa Railroad Land Co. v. Blumer
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF IOWA. This is a writ of error'.to the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, seeking reversal, of its judgment affirming the decree of the District Court of Woodbury County, quieting the land title of Claude F. Blumer, defendant in error,- as against the Iowa Railroad Land Company, plaintiff in error. 129 Iowa, 32. The record discloses that.Blumer brought his action.by a petition in equity under the Iowa Code, claiming tq.be owner…
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IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF IOWA. This is a writ of error'.to the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, seeking reversal, of its judgment affirming the decree of the District Court of Woodbury County, quieting the land title of Claude F. Blumer, defendant in error,- as against the Iowa Railroad Land Company, plaintiff in error. 129 Iowa, 32. The record discloses that.Blumer brought his action.by a petition in equity under the Iowa Code, claiming tq.be owner iff fee simple o'f forty acres 'of land"in Woodbury County, Iowa,, being the N. E. i of the N. E; { of section 1,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
The original grant of - May, 1856, was in prcesenti. The title passed from the tlnited States arid vested in the State of Iowa on October 13, 1856, when the map of definite location was lodged in the General Land Office, and the right of the company then attached. Iowa Falls Land Company v. Griffy, 143 U. S. 32.
Under the decisions made by this court in Desert Salt Company v. Tarpey, 142 U. S. 241, and Toltec Ranch Company v. Cook, 191 U. S. 532, notwithstanding the patent, had not been issued, the railway company, -grantor of the plaintiff in error, haying succeeded to the right and title of…
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