The case as presented by this record involves some very interesting questions. Ever since the decision in Polk's 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...
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