Price v. Beaver

Belcher, C. C.

— The defendant, on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1885, filed in the office of the surveyor-general of the state her application to purchase 640 acres of swamp and overflowed land, situate in Tulare County. The land sought to be purchased had been segregated as swamp and overflowed land, by authority of the United States, for more than six months, and was subject to sale by the state to any qualified applicant. The defendant was qualified to purchase the land, and her affidavit properly stated all the facts required in such case to be stated therein.

*626The plaintiff, on the…