Batchelder v. Willey
California Supreme Court
Application for a mandamus to compel the respondent, surveyor-general of California, to approve certain applications of the petitioners to purchase school lands from the State. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Sharpstein,
J.—In 1877 the petitioners filed in the office of the surveyor-general of the State applications to purchase certain school lands in Mendocino County. Within sixty days thereafter other applications to purchase the same lands were filed, and the contests were certified to the District Court of the twenty-second district, in which decrees were entered in favor of petitioners on the 27th of December, 1879. On the 14th of November, 1882, Pfankuch and Knox caused certified copies of said decrees to be filed in the office, and afterwards made applications to purchase said lands, which…
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