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89 Cal. 385

Dewar v. Ruiz

California Supreme Court

Decided June 1, 1891

California Supreme Court · decided 1891-06-01

<p>Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tulare County, and from an order denying a new trial.</p> <p>The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 1918

2 state decisions

Relies on Garfield v. Wilson · Fulton v. Brannan · Buchanan v. Nagle

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1891-06-01

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McFarland, J.

¶1— This action was brought by respondent against Ruiz, defendant, to determine the rights between said parties to purchase certain swamp and overflowed land. Gardner intervened as successor in interest to Ruiz. Judgment went in the lower court in favor of respondent and against the defendant and intervener, and the latter appeals.

¶21. There was no error committed in refusing to admit in evidence the application of defendant Ruiz to purchase, and subsequent papers dependent upon it, because, waiving all other objections, it appeared, and is not contradicted, the said application was made before *387segregation of the laud, and was therefore void. Since the briefs in the case at bar were filed, this court has, iti Buchanan v. Nagle, 88 Cal. 591, in Wren v. Mangan, 88 Cal. 274, and in later cases, approved the doctrine stated in Garfield v. Wilson, 74 Cal. 175, that the code makes no provision for an application to purchase prior to segregation.

¶32. There was no error in allowing respondent to show that the land in contest, although granted to the state as swamp and overflowed land, and purchasable as such, had been so far changed in its character by natural causes as to have become “suitable for cultivation.” (Fulton v. Brannan, 88 Cal. 454.)

¶43. The evidence warranted the findings, and the latter clearly show that the defendant was entitled to purchase.

¶5We see no material error committed at the trial of the cause.

¶6The judgment and order denying a new trial are affirmed.

¶7Ds Haven, J., Harrison, J., Garoutte, J., and Paterson, J., concurred.

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