VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
Appellant, plaintiff below, filed a petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Interior to issue her a patent for certain lands located in the state of California.
It appears that the land in question was granted to the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company by the Act of July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 292. It was also embraced within a grant to the Southern...
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