Siemssen v. Bofer
California Supreme Court
Appeal .from bhe District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District. This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs, who are non-resident aliens, residents of the Hanseatic Town of Lubeck. The agreed statement shows that plaintiffs claim the land as the heirs of Henry Hyer, a native of Lubeck, but a resident of the city of San Francisco, where he died in 1853, seized of the land in question, intestate, leaving the plaintiffs as his lawful heirs.
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Appeal .from bhe District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District. This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs, who are non-resident aliens, residents of the Hanseatic Town of Lubeck. The agreed statement shows that plaintiffs claim the land as the heirs of Henry Hyer, a native of Lubeck, but a resident of the city of San Francisco, where he died in 1853, seized of the land in question, intestate, leaving the plaintiffs as his lawful heirs. The question submitted is the right of the plaintiffs to maintain the action, under the treaty between the United States and the Hanseatic…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Murray.
Mr. Justice Terry concurred.
This was an action of ejectment in the Court helow. The plaintiffs are non-resident aliens; and the only question involved, is whether, in such capacity, they can maintain an action of ejectment in the Courts of this State.
By treaty stipulations between the United States and the Hanseatic towns of Lubeek, Bremen and Hamburg, it is provided : “ That the citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have power to dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the other, by sale,…
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