TRUSTEES OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND v. BASS


67 So.2d 433 (1953)

TRUSTEES OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND v. BASS.

Supreme Court of Florida, Division A.

October 6, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Fred M. Burns, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John D. Moriarty, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Frank E. Bryant, Miami, for appellee.


TERRELL, Justice.

This is a suit in ejectment by the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund to recover possession of the Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter of Section 34, Township 33, South, Range 29 East, located in Highlands County, Florida. A motion to dismiss the complaint was granted and the plaintiff appealed.

It is admitted that the lands in question were granted to the State under the Swamp Land Grant Act of 1850, 9 Stat. 519, and that they...

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