Southern Pac. R. Co. v. United States

WILBUR, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a deeree [ (D. C.) 43 F.(2d) 591] vacating a patent issued in January, ,1921, to the appellants by the United States government to the east one-half of the northeast one-quarter of section 35, Township 3 south, range 10 east, S. B. & M., an 80-acre tract in Riverside county, Cal. The trial eourt found that the patent therefor was issued inadvertently and through the error of a clerk,in the Land Office, who certified that the land was clear and subject to patent, whereas an appeal by the appellants herein, from a decision rendered by the register…