Case: Frank H. Ayers et al. v. W. S. Kingsbury, as Surveyor General and Ex Officio Register of the State Land Office of the State of California
Abbreviation: Ayers v. Kingsbury ex rel. State Land Office
Decision Date: 1919-01-07
Docket Number: No. 98
Citation: 248 U.S. 544
Volume: 248
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Frank H. Ayers et al. v. W. S. Kingsbury, as Surveyor General and Ex Officio Register of the State Land Office of the State of California.
Judges: 
Pages: 544–545

Head Matter:
No. 98.
Frank H. Ayers et al. v. W. S. Kingsbury, as Surveyor General and Ex Officio Register of the State Land Office of the State of California.
Error to the District Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, of the State of California.
Submitted December 17, 1918.
Decided January 7, 1919.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of (1) Messenger v. Kingsbury, 158 California, 611; People v. California Fish Co., 166 California, 576; People v. Banning Co., 166 California, 635. (2) Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Brown, 187 U. S. 308, 314; Consolidated Turnpike Co. v. Norfolk &c. Ry. Co., 228 U. S. 596, 600; Manhattan Life Ins. Co. v. Cohen, 234 U. S. 123, 137. (3) Campbell v. Wade, 132 U. S. 34; Gonzales v. French, 164 U. S. 338, 345; Banning Co. v. California, 240 U. S. 142, 154.
Mr. Charles C. Boynton and Mr. Robert T. Devlin for plaintiffs in error. Mr. U. S. Webb for defendant in error.