McMICHAEL v. MURPHY

No. 166.

197 U.S. 304 (1905)

McMICHAEL v. MURPHY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 3, 1905.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph K. McCammon, Mr. James H. Hayden and Mr. Frank Clark for plaintiffs in error and appellants.

Mr. J.H. Everest for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The particular question involved in this case is whether a settlement or entry on public land already covered of record by another entry, valid upon its face, gives the second entryman any right in the land, notwithstanding the first entry may subsequently be relinquished or be ascertained to be invalid by reason of facts dehors...

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