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AIKINS v. KINGSBURY

No. 265.

247 U.S. 484 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 558

62 L.Ed. 1226

AIKINS v. KINGSBURY, AS REGISTER OF THE STATE LAND OFFICE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 10, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.P. Henshall for plaintiff in error.

Mr. U.S. Webb, Attorney General of the State of California, and Mr. Robert W. Harrison, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, for defendant in error.

Mr. Fred W. Lake, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

On June 3, 1869, the State of California sold to Charles A.B. Brackett three hundred and twenty acres of school land, and delivered to him a "certificate of purchase" for it. Twenty per cent. of the purchase money was payable at the time of the purchase and the remainder "within one year after the passage of any act of the Legislature requiring such payment, or before, if desired by the purchaser."

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