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Grayson v. Harris, 279 U.S. 300 (1929)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Grayson v. Harris, 279 U.S. 300 (1929)
Grayson v. Harris No. 116 Argued January 10, 1929 Decided April 8, 1929 279 U.S. 300
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OKLAHOMA
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1. The extension to the Indian Territory by Act of Congress (Act of May 2, 1890, § 31, c. 182, 26 Stat. 81, 94) of § 4471 of Mansfield’s Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, a seven-year statute of limitations, operated to make that statute, with the settled construction placed upon it by the Arkansas courts, a law of the United States as though originally enacted by Congress, and its construction and effect present federal questions to be determined on review by this Court in the exercise of its independent judgment. P. 303.
2. Under § 4471 of Mansfield’s Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas (extended to the Indian Territory by the Act of May 2, 1890, § 31, c. 182, 26 Stat. 81, 94), requiring suits for the recovery of land to be brought within seven years "after title or cause of action accrued," the period of limitations does not begin to run against an heir from the date of the acquisition of title by inheritance, where no cause of action had at that time accrued, as where no one was in adverse possession or claiming any title thereby. P. 304.
129 Okla. 281, 285, reversed.
Certiorari, 278 U.S. 555, to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma to review a decision reversing a judgment which confirmed title of petitioners to certain lands claimed by respondents by adverse possession.
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MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Grayson v. Harris, 279 U.S. 300 (1929), in 279 U.S. 300, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PGGEWKD8GAX9U3X.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Grayson v. Harris, 279 U.S. 300 (1929). cited in 1929, 279 U.S. 300. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PGGEWKD8GAX9U3X.
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