Galpin v. Page
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court for the District of California. Philip Galpin brought an action against Lucy Page for the possession of certain real property situated in the city of San Francisco. The case was tried by the court by stipulation of the parties without the intervention of a jury. Both parties claimed title to the premises from the same source, Franklin C. Gray, deceased, who died iu the city of New York; in July, 1853, intestate, possessed of a large property in.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court for the District of California. Philip Galpin brought an action against Lucy Page for the possession of certain real property situated in the city of San Francisco. The case was tried by the court by stipulation of the parties without the intervention of a jury. Both parties claimed title to the premises from the same source, Franklin C. Gray, deceased, who died iu the city of New York; in July, 1853, intestate, possessed of a large property in. California, both real and personal. Of the real property the premises in controversy were a portion. The deceased left…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The Supreme Court of the State in its opinion, to which we are referred.in the findings, speaks of its decision as though there-were two separate decrees before it; but this is an evident inadvertence, as there was but one decree, and that was reversed for the reasons assigned as applying to proceedings in the separate suits before their consolidation. After the reversal of the decree' it is possible that the suits proceeded independently of each other as before their consolidation, until the dismissal disposed of them entirely.
The defendant relies upon the validity of the decree of the…
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