Jackson v. Dilworth

Handy, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of .tbe court:

This was a petition filed by the plaintiffs in error for a mandamus, requiring the defendant in error, as secretary of state, to issue to them a patent for a tract of land lying in Attala county ; and tbe case presented by the record is as follows:

On the 31st December, 1853, one Thomas Green located scrip for submerged lands issued to Tunica county, upon the land in controversy, and on the same day a patent thereon was issued to him by the secretary of state for the same land, lying in Attala county. This scrip was issued in virtue of the Act of…