The Title & Document Restoration Co. v. Kerrigan
California Supreme Court
PETITION for Writ of Mandate to the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Frank H. Kerrigan, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Garret W. McEnerney, Walter Rothchild, Joseph H. Mayer, Joseph Hutchinson, James S. Hutchinson, Chas. S. Wheeler, Amicus Curiœ, and J. F. Bowie, Van Fleet & Mastick, William H. H. Hart, and Bishop & Hoefler, Amici Curiœ, for Petitioner.
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PETITION for Writ of Mandate to the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Frank H. Kerrigan, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Garret W. McEnerney, Walter Rothchild, Joseph H. Mayer, Joseph Hutchinson, James S. Hutchinson, Chas. S. Wheeler, Amicus Curiœ, and J. F. Bowie, Van Fleet & Mastick, William H. H. Hart, and Bishop & Hoefler, Amici Curiœ, for Petitioner. The state may, as sovereign over lands situated within it, provide for an adjudication of title, in a proceeding in rem or in the nature of a proceeding in rem, which shall be binding upon all…
1Opinion of the CourtSloss, J.
In June, 1906, the legislature of this state, having been convened in extraordinary session to legislate concerning certain needs developed by the disaster of April 18, 1906, enacted, among other statutes, one entitled “An act to provide for the establishment and quieting of title to real property in case of the loss or destruction of public records.”
The present proceeding is an application for a writ of mandate. The petitioner herein filed a complaint, as provided by the act above referred to, and applied to the respondent, judge of the superior court in which its complaint had been filed,…
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