Woods v. Sawtelle

Citations

• 46 Cal. 389

Syllabus

<p>Purchase of State Lands.—An application to purchase State lands must conform to the statute, or it is invalid.</p> <p>Application to Buy State Lands.—An application to purchase State school land, made under the Act of 1868, must, if there is an adverse occupation of the land under a settlement made more than six months after the passage of the Act, state that fact, and that the adverse occupant has been in such occupation more than sixty days, and that the township has been sectionized and subject to preemption three months or over.</p> <p>Idem.—The approval, by the Surveyor General, of an application to purchase State lands, does not raise the presumption that the application conformed to the statute.</p>