Supreme Court of Kansas November 6, 1920, No. 22,850 (Cohen v. Corbett)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

On February 9, 1915, Jacob A. Corbett settled upon a tract claimed by him to be school land belonging to the state in virtue of having originally been an unsurveyed island in the Arkansas river. On April 1 of that year, in pursuance of his plan to acquire title thereto, he gave the bond required by statute (Laws 1913, ch.