HAMEL v. NELSON

Civ. No. 8565.

226 F.Supp. 96 (1963)

Lester J. HAMEL, Petitioner, v. Neal D. NELSON, individually and as State Director for California, Bureau of Land Management, Walter E. Beck, individually and as Manager, Sacramento District Land Office, Bureau of Land Management, and George Francis, individually and as Ukiah District Manager, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Respondents.

United States District Court N. D. California, N. D.

December 13, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Gilmore, Sacramento, Cal., for petitioner.

Cecil F. Poole, U. S. Atty., Rodney H. Hamblin, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for respondents.


MacBRIDE, District Judge.

This is an action for judicial review of an administrative order of the Bureau of Land Management denying petitioner's application under 43 U.S.C. § 1068 for a patent to a tract of land containing 2.29 acres. The ground on which the Bureau based its denial was that the land was not held by petitioner and his predecessors under claim or color of title as required by § 1068. The order was affirmed on appeal by the Secretary of the...

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