Wallace v. Miller
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twentieth Judicial District, County of Santa Clara. The action was ejectment for an undivided part and interest of, and equal to seven hundred and fifty acres in the Rancho Las Animas.
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Appeal from the District Court, Twentieth Judicial District, County of Santa Clara. The action was ejectment for an undivided part and interest of, and equal to seven hundred and fifty acres in the Rancho Las Animas. The Court found that on March 15th, 1873, a patent was issued by the Government of the United States to the widow and heirs of J osé Maria Sanchez, and that the number of acres contained in the rancho as so patented was twenty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-seven ; that the plaintiff derives his title to seven hundred and fifty acres, undivided, from one of the patentees…
1Opinion of the Court
cited Gibbs v. Swift, 12 Cush. 393; Lawrence v. Bullon, 37 Cal. 518; Corbin v. Liv*656ingston, 14 Wend. 619 ; Schenk v. Evoy, 24 Cal. 110; Gales v. Salmon, 35 Cal. 576; Kimball v. Semple, 25 Cal. 452; Ellis v. Icans, 26 Cal. 272.
Francis E. Spencer, for Respondent.
By the Court :
It is ordered that " the judgment herein be and the same is hereby modified by the striking therefrom, wherever they occur, the words “ one twenty-eighth part,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “ seven hundred and fifty twenty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-sevenths,” and in other respects the judgment and…
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