Shepard v. Northwestern Life Ins. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
At Law. This was an action of ejectment to recover the S. W. i of section 9, township 14 N., range 5 E. At the time the suit was begun, the land w'as in the possession of the defendant Clark, under a lease from his co-defendant, the Northwestern Life Insurance Company.
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At Law. This was an action of ejectment to recover the S. W. i of section 9, township 14 N., range 5 E. At the time the suit was begun, the land w'as in the possession of the defendant Clark, under a lease from his co-defendant, the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. Plaintiffs claimed title under an act of congress approved June 3,1856, granting certain public lands to the state of Michigan to aid in the construction of certain railroads. 11 St. at Large, 21. These lands were subsequently patented to the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad Company, (which, for convenience, will be called…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
This is one of many cases which have arisen out of the loose methods adopted by congress and the state legislatures in identifying and dealing with lands granted in aid of construction of railways. The cunibersomeness of executing patents for the large tracts of land involved in these grants has led to the practice of patenting by legislative act, leaving the lands to be selected and identified in each case by the patentee.
THE INDIAN TITLE.
' The first question in order of time, in this case, relates to the supposed want of power in the United States to make the grant of these lands under the…
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