Stryker v. Goodnow's Administrator
Supreme Court of the United States
In equity, in a state court of Iowa, to recover from the plaintiffs in error, defendants below, sums of money alleged to have been paid by defendant in error on lands in Iowa adjudged to be the property of the plaintiffs in error; and also to have the several amounts of the taxes decreed to be special liens on the lands. * Decrees r warding the relief asked for by the plaintiff below, to review which these writs of error were sued out.
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In equity, in a state court of Iowa, to recover from the plaintiffs in error, defendants below, sums of money alleged to have been paid by defendant in error on lands in Iowa adjudged to be the property of the plaintiffs in error; and also to have the several amounts of the taxes decreed to be special liens on the lands. * Decrees r warding the relief asked for by the plaintiff below, to review which these writs of error were sued out. The case, and what was claimed to make the Federal question, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
These suits all grew out of the delay which attended the settlement of the controversies in reference to the Des Moines River improvement land grant made by Congress to the Territory of Iowa, August 8, 1846, which will be hereafter referred to as the river grant. 9 Stat. 77, c. 103. The character of those controversies may be seen by referring to the cases of Dubuque and Pacific Railroad v. Litchfield, 23 How. 66; Wolcott v. Des Moines Company, 5 Wall. 681; Williams v. Baker, 17 Wall. 144; Homestead Company v. Valley Railroad, 17 Wall. 153; and Wolsey v. Chapman, 101 U.S. 755. At first it was…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Wolsey v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Dubuque & Pacific Railroad v. LitchfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1860
- Wolcott v. Des Moines Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Homestead Company v. Valley RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Litchfield v. County of WebsterSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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