Miller & Lux v. Batz

Citations

• 6 Cal. Unrep. 481
• 61 P. 935
• 1900 Cal. LEXIS 1098

Syllabus

<p>Swamp Lands—Reclamation Funds—Assignment—Sale of Land. Since Political Code, section 3477, requiring the county treasurer to pay amounts due on reclamation of swamp land to the original purchaser or his assigns, contemplates payment only to the owner or assignee of the indebtedness, mandamus will not lie to compel such a payment to one who is not shown to be the assignee of the claim on the fund of an original purchaser who became entitled thereto, though he claims as a successor in interest of such original purchaser, by virtue of a purchase of the land.</p>