King v. La Grange
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial in the Fifteenth District Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Dwinelle, J. The main facts of the case are stated in the report of the former appeal.
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Appeal from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial in the Fifteenth District Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Dwinelle, J. The main facts of the case are stated in the report of the former appeal. (50 Cal. 328.) The material parts of the will were as follows: " I, Samuel Ward, etc. * * * do hereby nominate and appoint my partners, Joseph R Curtis and Philo H. Perry, the executors of this, my last will and testament, with full power to manage, sell, dispose of, and control all my estate, real, personal and mixed, in such manner as to them shall seem meet, and as I…
1Opinion of the Court
Sharpstein, J. :
This is an action of ejectment, and the complaint is in the *227ordinary form. One of the defenses set out in the answer of the defendant is, “that at the time of the commencement of this action, he was Superintendent of the United States Branch Mint, situated on the lot of land described in the complaint, * * * and as such and not otherwise, he was in possession of said lot for the United States, and not for himself, and that he never had or claimed to have any interest therein as owner, tenant or otherwise, and that from 1854, down to the present time, the United States has…
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