Stephen Johnson Field

“ A patent of the United States, regular on its face, cannot in an action at law be held inoperative as to any lands covered by it, upon parol testimony that they were swamp and overflowed, and therefore unfit for cultivation, and hence passed to the state under the grant of such land on her admission into the Union. ”

“ The certificate of purchase from the register of the state land-office, which he produced, related to different land,-to what constituted a portion of the south-east quarter of section 6, whereas the land in controversy is part of the north-east quarter of that section. ”