United States ex rel. Faull v. Ickes

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellant, plaintiff below, filed a petition for writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Interior to allow a desert-land entry of lands situated in the state of California, and to issue a certificate therefor.

It appears that one James P. Faull, in 1921, filed his declaration of intention to reclaim a tract of desert-land under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1877, 19 Stat. 377, as amended by the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1095 (43 U.S.C.A. §§ 321-323, 325, 327-329), commonly known as the “Desert-Land Act.” To the petition defendant…