City of Eureka v. McKay & Co.
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Humboldt County. G. W. Hunter, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
This is an action in ejectment brought by the city of Eureka to recover from defendants a piece of land alleged to be a public street of that city, described and known as "A Street." The answer denied the allegations of the complaint, and affirmatively pleaded the statute of limitations and an estoppel against plaintiff. The case was tried upon an agreed state*668ment of facts. Judgment passed for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
In 1850 a settlement was made on the site of what afterwards came to be the town of Eureka, now the city of Eureka. In that year one Ryan made a map entitled “Map of…
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