Egan v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““The state court held that, McDonald having shown a deed to Huston, approved by the. Secretary of the Interior and executed by three persons who declared themselves to be the only heirs, the burden was upon the plaintiff to establish the fact, if it was such, that there were other heirs, and that the mere suggestion in argument that there may hare been some additional heirs does not cast such a suspicion upon the title as to render it unmer-chantable. This is a matter of state law, with which we have no concern. Nor have we occasion to consider whether, as held in Daugherty v. McFarland, 106 N. W. 143 , the mere approval by the Secretary of the Interior would have operated to convey to the grantee a good title, even if it had appeared that the deed was executed by a part of the heirs only.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hellen v. Morgan