Grogan v. Knight
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Seventh Judicial District, Solano County. Plaintiff recovered judgment in the Court below, and defendants appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.
This is an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a portion of the lands formerly known as the Suscol Rancho. The premises are public lands of the United States, and have never been surveyed under the authority of Congress. The plaintiff relies for his title upon certificates of purchase issued October 17, 1862, by the Register of the State Land Office, upon the location and sale of school lands, selected in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of the public lands of the United States. The United States Register of the proper land district refused…
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