Miles v. Wells

The plaintiff, by petition, applied to the court below to issue a writ of mandate, directed to the defendants, and each of them commanding them to refrain from selecting certain lands for the purposes of public sale or lease, and to receive the application made by the petitioner for the selection of said lands, and also to select the same pursuant to the petitioner’s application, and to contract to sell the same at private sale to the petitioner for the sum of $1.50 per acre, and to receive the sum of 25 cents per acre tendered by the- petitioner; and also commanding them and each of them to…