Heilbron v. Heinlen

Belcher, C. C.

This is an action to recover damages for trespass upon real property.

It is alleged in the complaint that for more than two years last past, the plaintiffs had been seised and possessed of all that certain tract of land in the counties of Fresno and Tulare, known as the rancho Laguna de Tache, containing about forty-eight thousand acres, and for which a patent, dated March 6, 1866, was issued by the United States to Manuel Castro; that on the seventeenth day of December, 1883, the plaintiffs were engaged in constructing a fence of posts and wire along the right bank of Kings…