Geer v. Sibley

Foote, C.

This was a contest in the superior court of Tulare County as to. the respective rights of the plaintiff and defendant to. purchase a section of swampt land of the state. Judgment passed for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appeals.

The point made for-the-reversal of the judgment is, that the findings of fact do not support it.

The only ground relied upon in the complaint to defeat the defendant’s right to- purchase the land is, that his affidavit filed with the surveyor-general was false, in that it asserted that at the time of making it the defendant knew “ the land applied for…