Gauthier v. Morrison
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the state court over questions relating to the public lands and the jurisdiction of this court to review the judgment, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This case originated in the Superior Court of Spokane County, Washington, and involves the present right of possession of a tract of unsurveyed public land, containing about 75 acres, in that county.
Considerably abridged, the facts stated in the complaint are these: In 1877, when the public lands in that vicinity were surveyed, an area embracing approximately 1,200 acres was by the wrongful act or error of the surveyor omitted from the survey and meandered as a lake, when in truth it was not such but was agricultural land susceptible of cultivation. That area still remains únsurveyed and…
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