State ex rel. Wall v. Blasdel
Nevada Supreme Court
This was an application to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the Hon. H. G. Blasdel, requiring him, as Governor of the State, to sign a patent for the sale of certain public land, being the south half and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section sixteen in township fifteen north in Range nineteen east of Monte Diablo meridian.
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This was an application to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the Hon. H. G. Blasdel, requiring him, as Governor of the State, to sign a patent for the sale of certain public land, being the south half and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section sixteen in township fifteen north in Range nineteen east of Monte Diablo meridian. The relator set forth in bis petition, among other things, that the section was surveyed by the United States Government on or about July 3d, 1865, and that the plat of such survey was filed in the proper land office; that no…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Beatty, C. J.. This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to issue out of this Court for the purpose of compelling- his Excellency H. G. Bias-del, Governor of the State, to sign and issue to relator a patent for a certain piece of land. There appears to be no question as to the character of the land, it being a part of a sixteenth section; no question as to priority of rights, there being no other claimant for the land; but the simple and only question is, has the relator taken the proper steps, or caused the proper proceedings to be had, to enable him' to obtain the State’s right…
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