Mahon v. Richardson

Citations

• 50 Cal. 333

Syllabus

<p>Survey op Swamp Land.—In surveying swamp and overflowed lands, the county surveyor is the agent of the State, and it is his duty to connect with the lines of the United States survey.</p> <p>Land conveyed by State Patent.—If a State patent of swamp lands describes the land conveyed by subdivisions, according to the United States survey, and continues the description by giving the number of the swamp land survey, and saying that it is more particularly described in the field notes of the survey, and then recites the field notes, the land conveyed is limited to that actually surveyed in the field, and described in the field notes, even if the survey did not include all the land in the subdivisions.</p>