Watson v. Robey

Citations

• 9 Cal. 52

Syllabus

<p>The object of the law, requiring the record of entry on lands under school-land warrants, was to give notice to subsequent locators and settlers, and a failure to record it in the proper office will not make the location and entry void, as to a subsequent locator with actual notice.</p> <p>This provision is like that of the act concerning conveyances, which requires the record of certain instruments, A party cannot forfeit his rights by a mistake which injures no one. A party cannot complain that he was injured, by a failure to record in the proper office, when he knew the fact without the record.</p>