Tuffree v. Polhemus
California Supreme Court
Cross-appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and from orders denying a new trial. W. H. Clark, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Garoutte, J
This action was brought to quiet title
to a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres. The complaint is in the usual form, and contains the additional allegation that plaintiff, Mrs. Tuffree, had been in the open, notorious, peaceable, continuous, and adverse possession of the tract for more than fifteen years. The answer denied the allegations of the complaint, and alleged that by a tripartite indenture, executed in 1868, between Abel Stearns and his wife, of the first part, Alfred Robinson, of the second part, and Samuel Brannan, E. F. Eortham, Charles B. Polhemus,…
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