Newman v. Cornelius

Opinion

COAKLEY, J.

This action in quiet title involves lands in the Piute Mountains of Kern County. The amended decree quieted appellant’s title “to that certain land described by reference to the 1883 United States Governmfent Survey . . . except only as to those certain mining claims hereinabove set forth, or any of them, as and to the extent any or all of same may be located upon said land.”

The decree is deficient in these respects:(1) It purports to quiet title to land described in an 1883 United States Government Survey, which survey the evidence establishes was incorrect and superseded…