Grissom v. State ex rel. Alabama College

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit in equity to quiet the title to forty acres of land in SEj4 of NE^4 of section 8, Township 14 N, Range 9 W, of Walker County. The State claims it for the use of Alabama College, which is a State college for girls, under a land grant by Act of Congress approved February 18, 1899, 30 Stat. 837, and selection made and issued as thereby authorized dated June 30, 1900. Appellants claim the land by adverse possession occurring both before and after that date and that the title passed out of the Government by patent to one Ann Thompson dated March 1, 1858, filed for…