Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund v. Stevens

I dissent and would approve the district court’s decision because I believe the Marketable Record Title Act when first enacted 1 was intended to apply to claims of the state as well as to those of private persons. Odom v. Deltona Corp., 341 So.2d 977 (Fla.1976). Included among the statutory words “all estates, interests, claims or charges whatsoever,”2 based on the apparent intent of the legislature, were long-dormant claims of the state grounded on the assertion that state land grants did not include sovereignty lands. This intent is made clear by the provision now codified in section…