Hensley v. Tarpey

Citations

• 7 Cal. 288

Syllabus

<p>Certified copies of grants made by the Surveyor-General of the United States, are inadmissible in evidence, unless the absence of the originals is accounted for.</p> <p>An affidavit, showing that the Surveyor-General has adopted a rule, refusing to allow the originals to be taken from the files, is a sufficient predicate.</p> <p>The Courts of this State are not bound to take official notice of the rules adopted for the regulation of the various departments of the federal government, or those established by the Board of Land Commissioners or Surveyor-General of the United States for California.</p>