Smithee v. Garth

Jesse Turner, J.:

At the October Term, 1877, of the Pulaski Circuit Court, Henry E. Garth tiled his petition stating, that on the 10th day of October, 1877, he applied to J. N. Smithee, as Commissioner of State Lands, to enter certain vacant and unentered swamp and overflowed lands, granted by Congress to the State of Arkansas, under an act of Congress approved 28th of September, 1850, entitled, “An Act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits,” and since confirmed to said State, and by said Commissioner offered at public sale in the…