People ex rel. Estabrook v. Pritchard

Cooley J.

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the Commissioner of the State Land Office to issue to the relator a patent for certain school lands in the County of Midland.

The relator in this petition states that on the third day of July 1867 he applied at the State Land Office to purchase all of a certain section of school lands, except one forty acre lot, being in all six hundred acres ; that he was informed by one Nash, chief clerk and bookkeeper in the office that the said lands would be secured to him on the payment of two dollars per- acre ; that he paid into said *471offic…