Doll v. Meador
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fifteenth District. This was an action of ejectment, to recover possession of a lot in the town of Red Bluff, in Tehama county, based upon a title vested in the plaintiff by virtue of the following patent: United States of America, State of California.
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Appeal from the Fifteenth District. This was an action of ejectment, to recover possession of a lot in the town of Red Bluff, in Tehama county, based upon a title vested in the plaintiff by virtue of the following patent: United States of America, State of California. “ To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting: “Whereas, under the provision^ of an Act of Congress of the United States, entitled “ An Act to Appropriate the Proceeds of the Sales of the Public Lands, and to Grant Preemption Rights,” approved September 4th, 1841, 500,000 acres of the public lands were granted to the State…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Baldwin, J. and Cope, J. concurring.
*314This is an action of ejectment for the possession of a lot situated in the town of Red Bluff, in the county of Tehama. The plaintiff relies for recovery upon a patent of the State of California, embracing the premises in controversy, issued to him upon a location of three hundred and twenty acres of land, of the 500,000 acres granted to the State by the Act of Congress of September 4th, 1841. The defendant Meador rests his defense upon the alleged selection of the three hundred and twenty acres as the town site of Red Bluff, and its consequent reservation,…
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