Dunn v. Ketchum
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Thirteenth District, County of Tulare. This proceeding arose under the provisions of the statute directing the Surveyor General, in certain cases, to refer the contest between conflicting claimants of State lands to the decision of the District Court. Judgment was entered in favor of Ketchum, and Dunn appealed. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSawyer, C. J.
On the 10th of March, 1868, respondent, Ketchum, applied to the County Surveyor of Tulare County for the purchase of the tract of land in question, under ‘ ‘An Act to provide for the sale of certain lands belonging to the State, ” approved April 27, 1863 (Stats. 1863, 591). He at the same time subscribed and filed with the County Surveyor the affidavit required by the third, and the oath required by the twenty-eighth sections of said Act, but no certificate of the oath required by the latter section or description of the land had been filed in the office of the County Recorder of said County…
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