Iburg v. Suanet
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. In July, 1863, Thomas A. Jones erected a small house on the land in dispute, and moved into the same. On the eleventh day of August, 1863, Jones and Francis E.Weygant conveyed the land to the Mary Anna Cook spoken of in the opinion.
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Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. In July, 1863, Thomas A. Jones erected a small house on the land in dispute, and moved into the same. On the eleventh day of August, 1863, Jones and Francis E.Weygant conveyed the land to the Mary Anna Cook spoken of in the opinion. On the fourth day of December, 1866, said Mary Anna, being then twelve years old, conveyed one undivided one half of the land, by the consent of her father, to B. B. Newman; and on the twenty-ninth day of April, 1867, Newman sold and conveyed an undivided one fourth of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
The action is ejectment for a parcel of land situate in what is known as the Western Addition to the city of San Francisco, outside of the charter line of 1851, and, therefore, not within the limits affected by the Van Ness Ordinance. The plaintiff claims to be entitled to recover on the ground—First, of prior possession; and second, that *267at the time of the passage of the Act of Congress of March 8th, 1866, entitled “ An Act to quiet the title to certain lands within the corporate limits of the city of San Francisco” (14 Statutes at Large, 4), he or his grantor was…
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