Bowles v. Miller

The defendant in error, the state board of land commissioners of the state of Colorado, in January, 1909, issued an assignable certificate of purchase to George E. Covington evidencing a contract of sale to him by the defendant of a quarter section of state school lands. The sale was regular in all respects, except a slight irregularity hereinafter mentioned. The interest in this land was regularly transferred through various conveyances to, and obtained and acquired by, the plaintiff in error Bowles. There was a reservation in this certificate in favor of the state of Colorado, of all…