Lick v. Ray
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The trial of this cause in the Court below resulted in a judgment in favor of, and as prayed by, plaintiff—to the effect that the deed to James Bay was a cloud upon the plaintiff’s title; that it was null and void; that it should be delivered up and canceled, and enjoining defendants from asserting any right, title, or interest, under or through it, to Santa Catalina Island.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The trial of this cause in the Court below resulted in a judgment in favor of, and as prayed by, plaintiff—to the effect that the deed to James Bay was a cloud upon the plaintiff’s title; that it was null and void; that it should be delivered up and canceled, and enjoining defendants from asserting any right, title, or interest, under or through it, to Santa Catalina Island. The other facts are stated in the opinion. The defendants appealed from the judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Wallace, J.:
This appeal is brought from a judgment by which it was determined that a deed made to the defendant James Bay by the Sheriff of the County of Los Angeles of an undivided three eighths of the island of Santa Catalina, formerly owned by the defendant James if. Bay, and sold by said Sheriff under a judgment rendered against the latter in favor of Benjamin Wood, was null and void as against Lick, who claims to have acquired the said three eighths interest of the defendant James H. Bay through another deed made by the Sheriff of said county, by which he conveyed said three…
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