Shoub v. Perkins

Citations

• 111 Miss. 78
• 71 So. 270

Syllabus

<p>Public Lands. Swamp lands. Confirmation. Act. Effect.</p> <p>The lands in question were claimed by the state as swamp and overflowed lands under the swamp land act of congress of September 28, 1850; under this act, these lands were selected by the state as swamp and overflowed lands in 1859, and were after-wards sold by the state to the remote vendors of appellees. After some twenty years the land was rejected as not being swamp land; in 1905 congress passed an act (Act Congress, March 3, 1905, chapter 1485, 33 Stat. 1258) known as the McLaurin Act, ratifying the state’s sale of such lands and confirming the title thereto in purchasers as of the date of such sales as if the title of the United States had passed thereby, provided that no valid title under the public land laws should be affected thereby. In such case whatever title the United States had remaining in it at the passage of the confirming act vested in purchasers from the state, and appellees claiming under such purchasers had good title as against appellant, who in 1907 entered or purchased under the homestead laws.</p>