Supreme Court of Alabama January 20, 1910 (Austin v. Meaher)

' SIMPSON, J.

— The bill in this case was filed by the appellee against the appellants to quiet title to property under the statute. The land in question is a part of what is known as the “swamp and overflowed lands”” of the state — the complainant claiming under a conveyance, in form of a patent from the state in 1872, but signed only in the Governor’s name by his secretary, and without the