Grenada County Supervisors & Others v. Brogden & Others was a case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1884. The case involved a dispute between the Grenada County Supervisors and the Brogdens over the ownership of a piece of land. The Brogdens had purchased the land from the state of Mississippi in 1858, but the Supervisors argued that the land had been illegally taken from the county in 1856. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Brogdens, finding that the state had the right to sell the land and that the county had no legal claim to it. The Court also held that the county had failed to prove that the land had been illegally taken from them. The decision established that the state had the right to sell land that it had acquired from a county, even if the county had not given its consent.

In the dissenting opinion of Grenada County Supervisors & Others v. Brogden & Others, Justice Field argued that the majority had misapplied Mississippi law in their decision. He noted that under Mississippi law, a contract was not rendered invalid by an error in its description if it could be identified from other facts and circumstances surrounding it. In this case, he believed there were sufficient facts to identify the property being sold even though there was an error in its description; thus, he felt that the contract should have been enforced as written rather than declared void due to a technicality. Furthermore, Justice Field argued that since both parties had acted upon and accepted benefits from the agreement for many years without objection or dispute until after one party attempted to sell his interest in it - which would have resulted in financial loss for him - then they should be held accountable according to what they agreed upon originally instead of allowing them to escape liability on account of a minor mistake made at inception.