People ex rel. Dunn v. Boring
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District. Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, County of Nevada. This was an application on behalf of the relator, for a writ of mandamus, directed to the defendant, sheriff of Nevada county, commanding him "to execute a conveyance of land to the relator.
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Appeal from the District. Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, County of Nevada. This was an application on behalf of the relator, for a writ of mandamus, directed to the defendant, sheriff of Nevada county, commanding him "to execute a conveyance of land to the relator. The petition sets forth that the relator in the month of June, 1856, purchased certain land in Nevada county, at a foreclosure sale, under a decree of Court duly entered, and that the sheriff executed a certificate to the relator; that before the expiration of the six months allowed for redemption of the property, the…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
Court—Burnett, J., concurring.
The fifth subdivision of section thirty-seven of the act concerning sheriffs, requires, on the election of a now sheriff, the former sheriff to deliver over to his successor all executions, attachments, and final process, except those which he has executed, or has begun to execute, by the collection of money, or a levy on property; and the thirty-ninth section of the same act provides that, notwithstanding the election and qualification of the new "sheriff, the former sheriff shall complete the execution of all final process which he has begun to execute.
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