Huff v. Doyle

This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of California, which brings here for review a judgment of that cour^ concerning a title to'land dependent on the act of Congress granting lands to that State for school purposes, of March 3, 1853, and the act of July 23, 1866, on the same subject. 10 Stat. 244; 14 id. 218.

By the sixth section of the first-mentioned act, the State was granted every sixteenth and thirty-sixth section of the public laüd, for school purposes, with an exception of lands which for various reasons ought not to be so granted; and by the seventh section, the…