Thornton v. Thompson

By the Court,

The refusal of the Court to allow the plaintiff to prove by oral testimony that the land in controversy was not swamp and overflowed within - the meaning of the Act of Congress ceding the swamp and overflowed lands within their borders to the several States, was error. (Kyle v. Tubbs, 23 Cal. 432 ; Kernan v. Griffith, 27 Cal. 87.)

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered.