California Supreme Court July 27, 1894, No. 19346 (People ex rel. Schwartz v. Temple)

Belcher, C.

This action was instituted for the purpose of having two state patents, one for the east half and the other for the west half of a certain sixteenth section of land in San Diego county, vacated and set aside, so far as they affect the south half of the section, upon the ground that they were issued without authority of law, and were void.