Atchafalaya Land Co. v. F. B. Williams Cypress Co.

Citations

• 258 U.S. 190
• 42 S. Ct. 284
• 66 L. Ed. 559
• 1922 U.S. LEXIS 2259

Syllabus

<p>A statute limiting the time within which actions may be brought to annul state patents for land and which, applied to a given case, prevents a senior grantee or- contractee from asserting his rights, accrued before.the passage of the statute, against a junior patentee of the same land, does not deprive him of property without due •process or impair the obligation of hi3 contract if it allows a reasonable time after its enactment within which his suit may be begun. P. 197.</p>