Guaranty Savings Bank v. Bladow

Citations

• 176 U.S. 448
• 20 S. Ct. 425
• 44 L. Ed. 540
• 1900 U.S. LEXIS 1748

Syllabus

<p>The power to review and set aside the action of local land officers exists in the general land department.</p> <p>When an entry is cancelled, after due notice to the entryman, and after a hearing in the case, it is conclusive against him everywhere, upon all questions of fact; and it cannot be regarded as a mere nullity, when set up against his mortgagee, even though such mortgagee had no notice of the proceeding to cancel the certificate.</p> <p>Such an entry does not transfer the title to the land, but simply furnishes prima facie evidence of an equitable claim for a patent, and the use of the certificate for that purpose is subject to be destroyed by its official cancellation.</p>