Mower v. Fletcher

Citations

• 116 U.S. 380
• 6 S. Ct. 409
• 29 L. Ed. 593
• 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1769

Syllabus

<p>If the proper officers of the United States approve a selection of school lands in disputed territory in California, outside the limits of an unsettled survey by the United States of a private claim, and issue proper certified lists, and a purchaser under the title thus •'acquired by the State enters into possession, improves, and holds the land, no one, by forcibly or surreptitiously getting into possession can make a preemption settlement which will defeat his title.</p>