Burke v. Southern Pac. R.

BLEDSOE, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity to compel the defendant to execute a conveyance of certain premises, situate in the county of Imperial, state of California, to the plaintiff. In support of his claim for such relief the plaintiff alleges that the defendant railroad company obtained the title to the land in question, a certain half section, under and pursuant to the act of Congress of March 3, 1871 (16 Stat. 573, c. 122), subject to the condition that all land so acquired by the said defendant, which ivas not sold or otherwise disposed of within three years subsequent to the…