Steinbach v. Moore
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District City and County of San Francisco. This was an action to recover possession of a tract of land in San Francisco, bounded on the north by Tracey street, on the east by Mission street, on the south by Centre street, and on the West by Guerrero street.
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Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District City and County of San Francisco. This was an action to recover possession of a tract of land in San Francisco, bounded on the north by Tracey street, on the east by Mission street, on the south by Centre street, and on the West by Guerrero street. The plaintiff averred in his complaint that on the 18th day of February, 1859, he was seized in fee of the demanded premises, and that the defendants ousted him on the same day, and prayed for judgment for possession. The defendants answered severally, denying the allegations of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
The plaintiff offered in evidence the petition of Ridley to Governor Alvarado, in which he solicited that there might be conceded to him in the ex-Mission of Dolores “ a ruined house by the name of Juan Prado (already deceased,) in order that he may repair it, with fifty varas to the east of said house, and four hundred varas between the house and the artilleryman Gomez and the Estero, in order to form his sowing ground,” etc.; and he also offered the concession of the Governor, by which there was conceded to the petitioner the “ house petitioned for in the new pueblo…
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