Christy v. Dana

By the Court, Crockett, J.:

This is an action tp foreelpse a mprtgage made by B. 0. Dana, deceased, in his lifetime, tc the plaintiff, upon a tract of land which at the time was a part of the public domain, but upon which Dana resided, and which he proposed to claim as a preemptor. The land is described in the mortgage as “ fragment of southwest quarter of section twenty-four, and fragment of northwest quarter of northwest quarter, of section twenty-five, township ten north, range seven east, Mount Diablo meridian, being a possessory claim under the statute of California, said land containing…