Busch v. Donohue

This is a controversy between claimants under conflicting grants by the United States. The lands which are the subject of the litigation were swamp lands, and the plaintiff’s claim is that they were conveyed to the state by the act of congress “ to enable the state of Arkansas and other states to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits,” approved September 28, 1850. — 9 Stat. at Large, 519. That act by its first section provided that the whole of the swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation and remaining unsold “ shall he and the same are hereby granted” to the states…