Whitman v. Steiger
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, County of Sonoma. When the plaintiff rested the defendant moved for a non-suit, because there was no proof of title passing from the Government of the United States or any other Government. The Court denied the motion. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
The action is ejectment for a strip of land lying on the dividing line between the two tracts claimed and occupied by the plaintiff and defendant respectively. Neither party exhibited any title derived from the Government of the United States or of Mexico; but, as we understand the facts, both entered under mesne conveyances deraigning title from Vallejo, and each claiming that his chain of title includes the demanded premises, and that his adversary’s does not. A verdict and judgment having been rendered for the plaintiff, the defendant appeals from the judgment…
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