Ellinwood v. Stancliff

Ross, J.,

(charging jury.) The documentary evidence in the case shows the title to the land in controversy to have been in the plaintiff at the time of the commencement of this action, if the land is embraced within the boundaries of the Rancho Tejunga, as described in the patent for that rancho issued by the government of the United States. The patent was issued October 19, 1874, and the survey embodied in it was made in the year 1858. The survey is therefore an old one, and it will not be surprising if the evidence shows that some or all of the stakes placed by the surveyor who made the…