Corpe v. Brooks

By the Court,

Boise, J.:

The appellant, Brooks, on the sixteenth day of January, 1872, filed his application to purchase the land in controversy as swamp lands of the state, under the act of October 26, 1870. He afterwards paid twenty per cent, of the purchase price at one dollar per acre, to wit, twenty cents per acre, and on the fourth day of April, 1872, received of the board of commissioners a certificate of purchase for the lands which are lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, and 16, in section 16, T. 40 S., R. 8 E., and are in Lake county. Said *223lands liad been selected as swamp lands, and the…