Cox v. Thane

Appellant filed a bill in the chancery court of Chicot County, alleging that he was the owner of two quarter sections of land there described situated in that county. He claimed title under the swamp land grant to the State from the United States, approved September 28, 1850, and a swamp land patent to him from the State dated April 16, 1920. There was an allegation that the lands were wild and unimproved, and that Henry Thane, the defendant, claimed some interest in the land, to the plaintiff unknown, and there was a prayer that the plaintiff’s title to the land be quieted and confirmed.

Thane…