Hogan v. Winslow

By the Court, Belcher, J.:

This is an action to determine which of the parties to it is entitled to purchase from the State of California a part of a thirty-sixth section of land in the County of San Joaquin. It appears from the findings of the Court that the respondent, Winslow, on the 9th day of May, 1868, made a proper 'application and presented the necessary affidavits to the locating agent for the Stockton Land District to purchase the land in controversy under the provisions of the Act of April 27th, 1863, to provide for the sale of certain lands belonging to the State. On the eleventh…