Pennybecker v. McDougal
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Tenth Judicial District, Colusa County. The plaintiff had judgment and the defendants appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court:
In July, 1871, the plaintiff entered at the proper United States Land Office a quarter section of Government land, and obtained a certificate of purchase therefor. On the 1st day of June, 1872, a patent was issued for the quarter section, but it was not received by the plaintiff until the eighteenth day of July following. When the plaintiff filed his declaratory statement, and thence continuously up to the commencement of this action, the defendants were in possession of about thirty acres of the plaintiff’s quarter section, having the same inclosed with other land by a good…
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