Buchanan v. Nagle

This is an action to determine a contest arising in the state land-office as to the right to purchase from the state a certain section of swamp and overflowed land in Tulare County. Judgment went for plaintiff, and defendant appeals from the judgment, and from an order denying a new trial.

The court below found, among other things, that the land in controversy was not segregated by the United States to the state until October 14, 1884; that defendant Nagle’s application was made on December 14,1883, and filed in the state land-office on April 1, 1884,— all before the segregation; and that as…