Mace v. Merrill
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment for the defendant, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Seventeenth District Court, Los Angeles County. Sepulveda, J.
1Opinion of the Court
Sharpstein, J.:
On the 22nd day of June, 1857, J. C. Merrill, attorney in fact of Edward Merrill, located a "school-land warrant on the south-east quarter of section 21, township 2 south, range 13 west, S. B. M., which was then unsurveyed land of the United States. On the 30th of April, 1858, Merrill applied to the Surveyor-General to relocate the warrant upon the same land, and on the llth of August, 1868, the location was made by the State locating agent. On the 27th of July, 1872, Merrill filed in the United States land office an application to purchase said land under the provisions of §§…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wilkinson v. MerrillCalifornia Supreme Court · 1877
3Cited by1 opinion
- Sullivan v. ShanklinCalifornia Supreme Court · 1883