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Title: Apalachicola Land and Development Company v. W. A. Mcrae
Author : Supreme Court of Florida
Release Date : January 08, 1923
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 106 KB

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STATEMENT. This suit was brought by parties claiming lands though an Indian-Spanish Grant to John Forbes & Co. made in 1811, the purpose of the suit being to enjoin designated State officials from leasing or using for planting and cultivating oysters, certain submerged lands under navigable and tide waters of a bay of the Gulf of Mexico south of the mainland in Franklin County, Florida, the plaintiffs' claim being that such submerged lands passed to them through an Indian-spanish Grnat to John Forbes & Co. in 1811, and confirmed by the United States to Colin Mitchel, et al., the lands of which grant originally made to John Forbes & Co. constitute a portion of what is commonly known in Florida as 'Forbes Purchase,"" comprising several Indian-Spanish land grants which were confirmed by the United States to Colin Mitchell et al., Mitchell v. United States, 9 Pet. (U.S.) 711.