Dean v. City of San Diego

BEEDSOE, District Judge.

For an expressed consideration of $10, the city of San Diego, through appropriate officers, on the 12th day of September, 1871, “granted, bargained and sold, released and quitclaim-ed,” to plaintiff herein, “ * * * all the right, title, interest, estate and claim whatsoever of the said city of San Diego, of, in and to” two certain pieces of property designated therein as “submerged and overflowed lands” and which the proofs show to be situated beneath the waters of the Bay of San Diego and below the line of ordinary high tide. A part of the property, as I understand…