(DOWNLOAD) "Knight v. United States Land Association." by Supreme Court of the United States # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Knight v. United States Land Association.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 21, 1891
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 95 KB
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The case as presented by this record involves some very interesting questions. Ever since the decision in Polks Lessee v. Wendall, 9 Cranch, 87, it has been the settled law of this court that a patent is void at law if the grantor State had no title to the premises embraced in it, or if the officer who issued the patent had no authority so to do, and that the want of such title or authority can be shown in an action at law. Patterson v. Winn, 11 Wheat. 380, 384; Stoddard v. Chambers, 2 How. 284, 318; Easton v. Salisbury, 21 How. 426; Reichart v. Felps, 6 Wall. 160; Best v. Polk, 18 Wall. 112; Smelting Co. v. Kemp, 104 U.S. 636; Steel v. Smelting Co., 106 U.S. 447, 453; Wright v. Roseberry, 121 U.S. 488, 519; Doolan v. Carr, 125 U.S. 618, 625, and authorities there cited.