Gray v. Collins
California Supreme Court
Appeal from, the County -Court of the City and County of San Francisco. The lot in controversy had a front of forty-eight feet nine inches on Post street, and seven feet nine inches on Sutter street, being a long strip in the middle of a block.
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Appeal from, the County -Court of the City and County of San Francisco. The lot in controversy had a front of forty-eight feet nine inches on Post street, and seven feet nine inches on Sutter street, being a long strip in the middle of a block. The entry, as found by the referee, was made under the following circumstances: “ On the morning of the 17th or 18th of February, 1869, the defendant Collins, a little after daylight, with a force of ten men, eight of whom were carpenters, employed by him in putting up a building in the neighborhood, went into the lot and tore down the fence on the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, J.:
This is an action of forcible entry and detainer. The case was sent to a referee to take the testimony and to report a judgment. He found the facts, and his conclusions of law therefrom, and reported a judgment for the defendants, which was, thereupon, entered. The lot in controversy is situated in the City of San Francisco, between Sutter, Post, Webster, and Fillmore streets. In November, 1868, the plaintiff built a fence, which, with the house and fence of the occupant of a lot adjoining this on the west, made a complete inclosure of it. This fence which he then…
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