KNIGHT v. UNITED STATES LAND ASSOCIATION

No. 824.

142 U.S. 161 (1891)

KNIGHT v. UNITED STATES LAND ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 21, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward R. Taylor for plaintiff in error. Mr. Samuel M. Wilson was with him on the brief.

Mr. Charles N. Fox for defendants in error.

Mr. Galpin also filed the following points for defendants.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The case as presented by this record involves some very interesting questions. Ever since the decision in Polk's Lessee v. Wendall, 9 Cranch, 87, it has been the settled law of this court that a patent is void at law if the grantor State had no title to the premises embraced in it, or if the officer who issued the patent had no authority...

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