Coppinger v. Rice
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The plaintiff had judgment, and the defendants appealed. The other facts necessary to an understanding of the points decided are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sanderson, J.:
Action to recover an undivided half of a certain parcel of land situated in San Mateo County, being part of the Rancho Canada de Raymundo, which was granted to John Coppinger, plaintiff’s father, in 1840, by Juan B. Alvarado, then Governor of California, and confirmed and patented by the United States to the plaintiff and her mother in 1859.
The case shows that John Coppinger, from whom the plaintiff claims as heir, died intestate in February, 1847, leaving him surviving the plaintiff, Manuela and Maria Juana Antonia, who were his only children and heirs at law, and…
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