Davidson v. Cucamonga Fruit & Land Co.

Belcher, C. C.

— The facts of this case may be briefly stated as follows: In January, 1869, John Mullan made application to purchase from the state of California a certain tract of land in San Bernardino County, containing six hundred acres. The application was approved by the surveyor-general on the twenty-first day of August, 1869, and on the fifteenth day of October following Mullan paid to the county treasurer of San Bernardino County twenty per cent of the purchase price, and interest on the balance up to January, 1870, and thereafter in the same month received from the register of the…