Dewar v. Ruiz
Dewar v. Ruiz
Opinion of the Court
— 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.
1. 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
2. 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.)
3. The evidence warranted the findings, and the latter clearly show that the defendant was entitled to purchase.
We see no material error committed at the trial of the cause.
The judgment and order denying a new trial are affirmed.
Ds Haven, J., Harrison, J., Garoutte, J., and Paterson, J., concurred.
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- ROBERT DEWAR v. JOSEPH RUIZ, and I. WELLINGTON GARDNER, Intervener and
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- Syllabus
- Swamp and Overflowed Land — Application to Purchase Prior to Segregation — Contest — Evidence. — An application for the purchase of swamp and overflowed land, filed prior to the segregation of the land to the state, is void, and is inadmissible in evidence in an action to determine the rights between the parties claiming the right of purchase of the land. Id. — Suitableness for Cultivation — Rights of Settlers—Evidence. —In an action to determine the right to purchase swamp and overflowed lands, evidence is admissible in behalf of an actual settler on the land 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.