PIERCE v. WARREN


47 So.2d 857 (1950)

PIERCE et al. v. WARREN, Governor, et al.

Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Pierce, pro se, and Leland Hyzer, Miami, for appellants.

Evans, Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston & Simmons, Thos. McE. Johnston and W.E. Dunwody, Jr., all of Miami, Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General and Rufus M. Yent, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.


THOMAS, Justice.

The plaintiffs, Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund, were awarded a decree quieting and confirming in them the title to the southwest quarter of the north-west quarter of section 4, township 55 south, range 41 east, which the court decided was "sovereignty land" as distinguished from "swamp and overflowed land," and the defendants, successors to the original grantee of the property, and a mortgagee appealed.

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