Potter v. Randolph

THE COURT.

—The action was to quiet title to land, and the appeal is from, the judgment and from an order refusing a new trial.

Plaintiff claims title derived from the United States under a commuted homestead entry, and a duplicate receipt for a patent dated prior to the commencement of the action.

The answers set up claims to portions of the land under mining locations and aver a contest with plaintiff, still pending in the United States land department, and contend that, therefore, the superior court bad no jurisdiction to render judgment “until said cause in said land department of the United…