Clark v. City of San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Plaintiffs claimed that in 1862 they were the owners of certain “ outside lands ” in San Francisco. In that year a corporation was organized, to continue for the term of two years, a Board of Trustees being duly appointed, with Isaac Bowell as President, and Edward Flanagan as Secretary.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Plaintiffs claimed that in 1862 they were the owners of certain “ outside lands ” in San Francisco. In that year a corporation was organized, to continue for the term of two years, a Board of Trustees being duly appointed, with Isaac Bowell as President, and Edward Flanagan as Secretary. The object for which the corporation was organized was to purchase the above mentioned land, lay out the same, divide the whole or any part thereof into lots suitable for homesteads, sell homestead lots,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, McKinstry, J.:
Plaintiffs ask judgment that the City and County pay to them three-eighths of the moneys assessed as the value of certain outside lands taken for a public park. The case shows that plaintiffs had no claim delineated on the “ Outside Land Map,” and were therefore not within the category of those recognized by the ordinances and statutes relating to the lands in which they now assert a right. It further appears that the lands were delineated on the map at the request and in the name of a *311corporation—the “ Citizens’ Homestead and Road Association that plaintiffs never…
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