Bird v. Lisbros
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District. This was an action of ejectment, to recover the possession of premisos, and damages for the detention of the same. The complaint contains two counts. The first sets up title and right of* possession in plaintiff, by virtue of deeds of conveyance, from Downer and G-arlow, who were, oh the thirtieth day of July, 1855, seized and possessed of the premises in controversy.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District. This was an action of ejectment, to recover the possession of premisos, and damages for the detention of the same. The complaint contains two counts. The first sets up title and right of* possession in plaintiff, by virtue of deeds of conveyance, from Downer and G-arlow, who were, oh the thirtieth day of July, 1855, seized and possessed of the premises in controversy. That Downer and Garlow, on that day, sold and conveyed the same to Ealph Bird,. who took possession under said conveyance. That on the twenty-second day of February,…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
This was an action to recover the possession of premises situated upon public land. On the trial of the cause in the Court *5below, the counsel of defendant asked the witness, Ralph Bird, the plaintiff’s grantor, c‘ whether he had not relinquished and abandoned all his right, to one Richardson, in July, 1855, and whether Richardson had not taken possession of the premises, by virtue of that relinquishment ?”
In the case of MeMinn v. Hays, 4 Cal. R., 209, it was said: “ The prior possession of Williams, the plaintiff’s grantor, was sufficient to maintain a recovery in ejectment.” And, in the…
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