Hartson v. Shanklin

Citations

• 58 Cal. 248

Syllabus

<p>Judgment—Estoppel—State Lands.—Upon an application for a writ of mandamus to the defendant as Register of the State Land Office, directing him to issue to the plaintiff a certificate (under § 3571 of the Political Code) for fifty-one dollars and ten cents, money paid upon a certificate of purchase for land, alleged not to be the property of the State, it appeared that, in an action by the State against the then holder of the certificate, judgment had been rendered for closing the interest of the holder and annulling the certificate.</p> <p>Held, that the matters involved in this proceeding were necessarily passed upon and adjudicated in the action referred to, and that the holder of the certificate and his assignees were estopped.</p>