Meeks v. Olpherts
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This action was brought, Sept. 30, 1872, by Meeks against Olpherts and others to recover possession of a hundred-vara lot in the city of San Francisco.
On a stipulation waiving a jury, the case was submitted to the court, which, on its findings of fact incorporated in this record, further found as a conclusion of law that the plaintiff’s action was barred by sect. 190 of the Probate Act of California. Judgment was rendered for the defendants. Meeks sued out this writ of error.
The material facts in the case are few and easily understood.
George Harlan died intestate July 8, 1850, seised of the…
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