People v. California Fish Co.
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Sheldon Borden, J. W. McKinley, Frank Karr, Ward Chapman, Edward E. Bacon, and W. R. Millar, for Appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
The defendants appeal from the judgment and from an order denying their motion for a new trial.
This is one of a series of nine cases begun by the state of California to quiet its title to certain lands embraced in state patents executed to the predecessors in interest of the defendants, under the general statutes authorizing the sale of swamp and overflowed, salt-marsh and tide lands. The lands lie in and adjacent to the bay of San Pedro, also known as Wilmington Bay. The other cases are numbered, respectively, on our Los Angeles register, as No. 3056, No. 3057, No. 3058, No. 3059, No. 3061,…
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