Conlan v. Quinby
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Seventeenth Judicial District, County of Los Angeles. The defendant appealed from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
In a contest before the land department of the United States as to the rights of plaintiff and defendant respectively to pre-empt the land in controversy, the Secretary of the Interior, on appeal, awarded the land to the plaintiff, who subsequently paid the purchase-price to the receiver of the proper district, and obtained his duplicate receipt therefor. The action is ejectment; and at the trial the only evidence offered by the plaintiff in support of his right to recover was, first, the written opinion and decision of the Secretary of the Interior; second, the…
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