Morenhout v. Higuera

By the Court, Sanderson, J.:

Ejectment. The plaintiffs allege title to an undivided half of the “ Plain of San Ignacio,” parcel of the Rancho “ Los Tulareitos ” in Santa Clara County, which was granted to José Higuera, now deceased, by the Mexican Government.

The defendants deny the title of the plaintiffs and allege title in themselves. They also plead in bar a former judgment of the Court in another action, to which plaintiffs and defendants were parties, in which it was adjudged and determined that the plaintiffs had no title to the premises.

At the trial the plaintiffs made a case which…