Swain v. Duane
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Nineteenth-Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The defendant appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
The action is ejectment, and the plaintiff having rested, the defendant moved for a nonsuit, which motion was denied, and the defendant not offering any evidence, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff.
To establish his right to recover, the plaintiff gave evidence tending to prove that, in 1855 or 1856, one Treat was in possession of the premises in controversy, and while so in possession conveyed them to one Reis; that in 1867, Reis, in consideration of two thousand four hundred dollars paid by plaintiff, conveyed the premises to Alice H. Swain, the wife of the…
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