Potter v. Commissioner of State Land Office

Those two cases present substantially the-same questions, and may be disposed of together. Both relators applied to the Land-office Commissioner, immediately after the Detroit & Milwaukee land sales, to buy lands which had not been already sold at auction, and paid him fifty cents per acre therefor: These purchases covered substantially the lands unsold. The Commissioner gave no land-sale-certificates, and subsequently, before the 9th of July 1884 notified the parties that they could not have their purchases recognized, and returned their money. On the 9th of July most of these lands were…