Jones v. Marks
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, County of Sacramento. John A. Sutter was the grantee from the Mexican government of the land comprising the city of Sacramento, and before the organization of the State government of California, made the plat of the city, dividing it into lots and blocks.
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Appeal from the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, County of Sacramento. John A. Sutter was the grantee from the Mexican government of the land comprising the city of Sacramento, and before the organization of the State government of California, made the plat of the city, dividing it into lots and blocks. Schoolcraft was his attorney in fact, and kept a record of sales made before the passage of the recording Act for this State, which book of records was afterward deposited in the Becorder’s office. The Act of May 18, 1853, referred to in the opinion, was passed for the purpose of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
The action is ejectment for a lot in the city of Sacramento, in which a judgment was entered for the defendant, from which, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial, the plaintiff appealed. At the trial the defendant offered, and the Court admitted in evidence, against the objection of the plaintiff, a certified copy from the “School-craft Becords” of a power of attorney from Sutter to School-craft, dated July 28th, 1849. The power of attorney authorized Schoolcraft, for and in the name of Sutter, to superintend his real and personal estate, “to make…
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