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CHAPMAN & DEWEY LUMBER CO. v. ST. FRANCIS

No. 82.

232 U.S. 186 (1914)

34 S.Ct. 297

58 L.Ed. 564

CHAPMAN & DEWEY LUMBER CO. v. ST. FRANCIS LEVEE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 26, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry D. Ashley, with whom Mr. William S. Gilbert was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Samuel Adams, with whom Mr. H.F. Roleson, Mr. J.C. Hawthorne and Mr. N.F. Lamb were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

The chief controversy in this case is over the title to about 1,500 acres of unsurveyed lands in Poinsett County, Arkansas, which were part of the public domain at the date of the Swamp-Land Act of September 28, 1850, c. 84, 9 Stat. 519, and the Federal question to be considered is, whether under the operation and administration of that act these lands have passed...

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