Mosely v. Torrence
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sonoma County. Section 3495 of the' Political Code, under which the respective applications of the parties to purchase were made, provides in effect that any person desiring to purchase a portion of the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to the state for school purposes, or of a sixteenth or thirty-sixth section, or lands selected in lieu thereof, situated in any township which has been surveyed by the United States,…
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sonoma County. Section 3495 of the' Political Code, under which the respective applications of the parties to purchase were made, provides in effect that any person desiring to purchase a portion of the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to the state for school purposes, or of a sixteenth or thirty-sixth section, or lands selected in lieu thereof, situated in any township which has been surveyed by the United States, must make an affidavit that he is a citizen of the United States, or has filed his intention to become such, a resident…
1Opinion of the Court
Belcher, C. C.
This action was commenced to determine a contest between the parties about the right to purchase from the state a part of a sixteenth section of *320land in Sonoma County. The case was tried and judgment entered that neither party was entitled to purchase the land, and thereupon both parties appealed from the judgment.
It appears from the findings that the defendant made application to purchase the land in question in June, 1879, and the plaintiff in August, 1882, and that at the time of making his application each party possessed the qualifications required by law to entitle him to…
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