McCormick v. Hayes

Citations

• 159 U.S. 332
• 16 S. Ct. 37
• 40 L. Ed. 171
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2302

Syllabus

<p>In an action in which the plaintiff claims title under the act of September 28, 1850, c. 84,9 Stat. 519, granting to the several States the swamp and overflowed lands in each unfit for cultivation, and the defendant claims title under the act of May 15,1856, c. 28,11 Stat. 9, making a grant of lands to the State of Iowa to aid in the construction of railroads, parol evidence is inadmissible to show, in opposition to the concurrent action of Federal and state officers having authority in the premises, that the lands in controversy were, in fact, at the date of the act of 1850, swamp and overflowed ground.</p>