Sill v. Reese
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Ejectment to recover fifty-vara lot No. 31, lying at the north-west corner of Washington and Kearny streets. The action was commenced December 16th, 1864. The defendants other than Eeese and Guy, were the tenants of Eeese and Guy.
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Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Ejectment to recover fifty-vara lot No. 31, lying at the north-west corner of Washington and Kearny streets. The action was commenced December 16th, 1864. The defendants other than Eeese and Guy, were the tenants of Eeese and Guy. The plaintiff offered evidence tending to show that Francisco Sanchez, a Justice of the Peace, or Alcalde, granted the lot to Francisco De Haro, in April, 1843, and placed him'in possession, and that De Haro, in the same month sold the lot to Daniel Sill, the father of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, McKinstry, J.:
At the trial the plaintiff claimed to have proved a' grant of the lot in controversy, made in 1843 by Sanchez, Justice of the Peace, to De Haro; and a subsequent transfer in the same year of the rights of De Haro to Daniel Sill, Sr., plaintiff’s ancestor.
The defendants introduced evidence tending to show a sale of the ■ premises by Sill, Sr., to George Davis; the mairing of a new grant in 1844 by Hinckley, Alcalde, to De Haro, and a conveyance by De Haro to Davis—all with the consent of Sill, Sr., who received the purchase price of tho lot from Davis. Defendants…
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