Meeks v. Vassault
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of California
[This was an action of ejectment by William Newton Meeks against Ferdinand Vas-sault and others.] The land in controversy is one hundred-vara lot number ten, of the liundred-vara survey south of Market street, in the city of San Francisco, and within the limits embraced by the Van Ness ordinance, the decree confirming the pueblo title, and the acts of the legislature of California and of congress, confirming it; and not within any of the exceptions mentioned in said decree…
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[This was an action of ejectment by William Newton Meeks against Ferdinand Vas-sault and others.] The land in controversy is one hundred-vara lot number ten, of the liundred-vara survey south of Market street, in the city of San Francisco, and within the limits embraced by the Van Ness ordinance, the decree confirming the pueblo title, and the acts of the legislature of California and of congress, confirming it; and not within any of the exceptions mentioned in said decree or in said acts. Said lot was granted by George Hyde, alcalde of San Francisco, to James G. D. Dumeavy, January 14, 1847,…
1Opinion of the Court
SAWYER, Circuit Judge.
The probate proceedings down to, and including the administration of Aspinwall, are the same in question in the supreme court of California in Haynes v. Meeks, 20 Cal. 288, and the facts relating thereto are fully set out in the report of that case. These proceedings were also, to some extent, considered by the supreme court of California in Haynes v. Meeks, 10 Cal. 110; Meeks v. Hahn, 20 Cal. 621; and Harlan v. Peck, 33 Cal. 515. The sale by Aspinwall having been adjudged void in Haynes v. Meeks, by the highest court in the state, plaintiff claims a right to recover.…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Tynan v. WalkerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1868
- Arrington v. LiscomCalifornia Supreme Court · 1868
- Cannon v. StockmonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1869
- Haynes v. MeeksCalifornia Supreme Court · 1862
- Meeks v. OlphertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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