Burns v. Scooffy

Searls,

This is an appeal by Mansfield Lovell and Lallah S. Highton, two of the defendants in the above-entitled cause, from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. John Burns instituted the action against Ada M. Scoofiy, Lallah S. High-ton, Edith Cook, Mansfield Lovell, Robert T. Cottingham, Nelson R. Doolittle, and Harry J. Gray, to establish his right to purchase from the state of California the north half of section 35 (school land), in township 14 north, range 1 east, Humboldt meridian, and to have like applications of the defendants and each of them, to purchase from said state, declared…