Anderson v. Southern Pacific Railroad

Citations

• 6 Cal. Unrep. 731
• 65 P. 950

Syllabus

<p>Public Lands.—In an Action to Recover Purchase Money paid on contracts for the sale of lands claimed by defendant under grants from the United States, which contracts provided that the money was' to be returned in ease “it shall finally be determined” that pat-exits shall not issue to the defendant, a finding that neither the supreme court of the United States nor any court had determined that patents should not issue to the defendants for the land in question was a finding of fact, and not a conclusion of law, the complaint alleging that a contrary finding had been made by the United States supreme Court, which allegation was denied.</p>