Warren County v. Catchings

Citations

• 94 Miss. 18
• 46 So. 709

Syllabus

<p>Public Lands. Sixteenth section. School lands. Lands in lieu. Location. British grants.</p> <p>Where the title of a grantee in a British grant was confirmed by an act of congress, the secretary of the treasury was thereafter without power to locate the granted land as school lands, in lieu , of a sixteenth section; such a location was absolutely void and not validated by the government’s subsequent acquisition of title to the land.</p>