Ord Land Co. v. Alamitos Land Co.

THE COURT.

The Ord Land Company instituted this action against the Alamitos Land Company to quiet its title to an irregularly shaped strip of land which stretches along a peninsula of sand-dunes between the shore of the ocean and certain marshy tide-lands adjacent to Anaheim Landing in Orange County. Plaintiff bases its claim of title upon a patent issued January 13, 1916, by the United States government to one John C. Ord, the plaintiff’s predecessor in interest. The defendant’s adverse claim, on the other hand, is founded upon a tide-land patent issued to it by the state of California on.…