Bicknell v. Comstock
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Bicknell v. Comstock | ||||||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||||
Decided January 19, 1885 |
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Holding | ||||||||||
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Chief Justice: Morrison Waite Associate Justices: Samuel Freeman Miller, Stephen Johnson Field, Joseph Philo Bradley, John Marshall Harlan, William Burnham Woods, Thomas Stanley Matthews, Horace Gray, Samuel Blatchford |
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Bicknell v. Comstock, Iowa and the value of the improvements made by the defendant. The complaint alleged a conveyance by Bicknell to one Bennett, the subsequent transfer to the defendant by sundry mesne conveyances, valuable improvements on the premises made by Bennett and his grantees, and a failure of title in Bicknell when the deed was made by reason of a superior title in the State of Iowa under a land grant. Judgment below for plaintiff, to reverse which this writ of error was brought.[1]
, was an action to recover the cost paid for a tract of land inThe mutilation (without the consent and against the protest of the grantee) of a patent for public land by the Commissioner of the Land Office, after its execution and transmission to the grantee, and the like mutilation of the record thereof, do not affect the validity of the patent. A state statute of limitations as to real actions begins to run in favor of a claimant under a patent from the United States on the issue of the patent and its transmission to the grantee.
The lapse of time provided by a statute of limitations as to real actions vests a perfect title in the holder.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Clawson v. United States, 113 U.S. 149 (1885) Justia.com
[edit] External links
- 113 149 Justia.com (full case)