Sherman v. Wright

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment of the superior court of Sacramento County awarding plaintiff a writ of mandate and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

Applications to purchase state lands were made to the register of the state land-office, respectively, by Mrs. Wrinkle and Samuel Levy. These applications were approved, and some two years thereafter, and pending the issuance of patents, this plaintiff filed an application to purchase certain portions of the lands covered by the previous applications. Accompanying his application was a protest directed…