Mandeville v. Solomon
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second District, Butte County. This cause was before this Court at the July Term, 1867, and is reported in the 33d volume, page 39, of the California Beports. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWallace, J.
A decree was entered in this cause, in the Court below, directing the appellant to convey to the respondent an undidivided interest in certain lands in Butte County, and her motion for a new trial being afterwards denied she prosecutes this appeal.
It appears that one James Potter, since deceased, had, at the time of his death, an unconfirmed claim to a piece of land, called, in the record, “Potter’s Half League.” He left seven children surviving him, and a will-—-by the terms of which it was supposed that one of his infant sons, James K. Polk Potter, was the sole devisee of this half league.…
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