Trustees Internal Improvement Fund v. Root
Supreme Court of Florida
Appealed from the Circuit Court for Dade County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
The bill of complaint herein was filed by Charles H. Root for the purpose of requiring the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund to make to him a conveyance of a certain 80 acres of land under Chapter 3151, Acts 1883, Sections 624, 625 and 626 of the General Statutes of 1906, which authorize certain classes of actual settlers upon the designated public lands to *670purchase them at 25 cents per acre, and for the further purpose of having canceled a conveyance of the land made by the Trustees to one Cardner under the authority given the Trustees by Chapter 610, Acts of 1855, Sections 616, 617…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- State ex rel. Ellis v. GerbingSupreme Court of Florida · 1908
- Bush v. AdamsSupreme Court of Florida · 1886
- Holzendorf v. TerrellSupreme Court of Florida · 1906
- Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund v. St. Johns Railway Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1878
- Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund v. RootSupreme Court of Florida · 1910
3Cited by27 opinions
- Martin v. Dade Muck Land Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1928
- South Atlantic Steamship Co. of Delaware v. TutsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1939
- Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. EnoSupreme Court of Florida · 1930
- Everglades Sugar & Land Co. v. BryanSupreme Court of Florida · 1921
- Yaist v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1989
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