City of California v. Howard

This is an action of ejectment to recover possession of a certain parcel of ground lying within the corporate limits of the city of California, and claimed by the city to have been dedicated by the owners thereof to public use.

l. dedication TO public use. It appears from a plat offered in evidence, the original of which was duly deposited with the recorder of the county in 1854> by tlie defendant and one Smith, that an addition to the then “ town of California ” was laid out on ground lying on both sides of the track of the Pacific railroad, which, at this point runs nearly east and west,…