29-1-13 - Private claims to lands.
§ 29-1-13. Private claims to lands.
The land commissioner shall investigate all claims of persons to any of the public lands, and shall cause the necessary suits to be instituted and prosecuted, and all pending suits to be prosecuted, to settle controversies concerning them. In all such suits, his findings and report, made upon investigation, shall be prima facie correct.
Sources: Codes, 1892, § 2571; 1906, § 2909; Hemingway's 1917, § 5244; 1930, § 6021; 1942, § 4103.