People v. Center
California Supreme Court
Appeals from portions of judgments and orders in the Twelfth District Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Daingerfield, J.
1Opinion of the Court
McKee, J.:
The action in this case was commenced to annul a patent which had been issued on November 11, 1867, by the Governor of the State of California to W. F. Montgomery and three other persons, “ their associates and assigns,” for eighty-nine thousand and odd acres of “swamp and overflowed lands” in Fresno and Kern counties.
Pending the action, the Legislature of the State passed an Act entitled “An Act to provide for determining the rights of parties in certain swamp and overflowed lands in Fresno and Kern counties,” approved March 20, 1878. These lands were those described in the patent…
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