Pratt v. Crane

Citations

• 58 Cal. 533
• 1881 Cal. LEXIS 260

Syllabus

<p>Conflict of Patents—Mexican Claim—Reserved Land^-Construction of Statute.—The case of Iivff v. Hoyle, 93 U. S. 558, referred to as deciding the principal points of this case.</p> <p>Id,—Id.—Id.—Id.—Conflict of Patents.—A patent of the United States for land to which it has no title conveys none; so held with reference to a patent of the United States, issued after the land was listed to and patented by the State to another.</p> <p>Id.—Id.—Id.—Id.—Id.—Pacific Railroad.—Upon the filing of the plat of the Central Pacific Railroad, only the vacant odd-numbered sections within the twenty miles limit were withdrawn, and the even-numbered sections remained subject to pre-emption and homestead as before.</p> <p>Id.—Id.—Id.—Id.—Id.—Id.—Under the third section of the Act of Congress of July 22d, 1866, the State selections confirmed by the act “ have the same force and effect as the pre-emption rights of a settler on the unsurveyed land.”</p>