Ramsay v. Tacoma Land Co.

Citations

• 31 Wash. 351
• 71 P. 1024
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 634

Syllabus

<p>APPEAL-DISMISSAL-SUFFICIENCY OF NOTICE AND BOND.</p> <p>Where the attorney for defendants gave notice of appeal for all of them and executed a bond in behalf of all, no ground is afforded for dismissal of the appeal by reason of the facts that certain of the appellants failed to execute the appeal bond, and that notice of appeal was not served on some of them.</p> <p>PUBLIC LANDS-BAILBOAD GRANTS-SALE OF LANDS EXCLUDED FROM GRANT-PREFERENCE RIGHTS OF PURCHASER.</p> <p>Under 24 St. at Large, 557, § 5, which provides that where any railway company shall have sold to citizens of the United States as a part of its land grant from the government lands coterminous with the constructed portion of its road, but which are for any reason excepted from the operation of its grant, the bona fide purchaser may make payment to the United States at the government price and shall thereupon be entitled to patent, one who had in good faith purchased the land from the railroad company, and, upon the decision of the land department adverse to the railroad’s right to the land, had applied within a reasonable time to make purchase under the above act of congress, had a preference right as against a homestead entrynran, who had made entry within four mtonths after notice of cancellation of the railroad’s right to the land, and with actual knowledge of all the facts.</p> <p>SAME —■ CITIZENSHIP OF CORPORATIONS.</p> <p>A corporation organized under the laws of any state is a citizen of the United States within the meaning of 24 St. at Large, 557, authorizing citizens of the United States, in certain eases, to purchase government lands.</p>