Cook v. McChristian
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District. The facts of this case, and the questions of law arising thereon, sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Oh. J. Murray
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Mr. J. Heydenpeldt concurred.
*25This was an action of ejectment to recover a tract of land lying in Sonoma County.
The facts disclosed by the record are as follows:
Patrick McChristian, one of the defendants, purchased the land in question from one Jasper O’Farrell, on the 7th of October, 1850, and continued to reside upon it with his-family up to a short time before the commencement of this suit, when he sold the premises to one Peter Campbell for the sum of five thousand dollars, and suddenly left the State, abandoning his wife and children,…
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