Cook v. Norman
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Nineteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Ejectment to recover an undivided one-fourth of a lot at the northwest corner of Valencia and Twentieth streets, city and county of San Francisco.
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Appeal from the District Court, Nineteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Ejectment to recover an undivided one-fourth of a lot at the northwest corner of Valencia and Twentieth streets, city and county of San Francisco. The plaintiffs were the children of Charles W. Cook and Charlotte F. Cook, who intermarried in 1849. In 1853, the husband and several other persons became the owners, as tenants in common, of a tract of about twenty-five acres of land, of which the demanded premises formed a part. In 1855, a partition was made, and Cook entered into possession of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court :
This is an action of ejectment. The plaintiffs are the children of Charles W. Cook and his wife Charlotte, who deceased in 1857, and the premises were acquired by Cook in 1853, and belonged to the marital community.
The defendants derive their title from Cook by deed delivered by him subsequently to the death of his wife. It was found by the court that before the death of the wife, Cook, the husband, had been a member of the banking firm of Palmer, Cook & Co., from which firm he had retired shortly previous to her death, and that upon the retirement of Cook tho firm was largely…
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