Irving v. Carpentier
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Alameda County. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtThornton, J.
This is an action to quiet title to land in Alameda County. The complaint contains this averment: “ That H. W. Carpentier, J. P. Jones, Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, and others of whose names plaintiff is ignorant, and whom he designates by the names of Tom Jones, Mary Jones, John Smith, and John Brown, and whose names when discovered he asks leave to insert in an amendment to this complaint, all of whom are in possession of the said land, and claim an interest therein adverse to this plaintiff.”
The summons in the action was on the 8th of February, 1883, served on the Pacific Improvement…
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