Hunter v. Watson
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Sixth District, County of Sacramento. The facts as stated in the opinion of the Court, are as follow: This was an action of ejectment to recover a lot in Sacramento city. The title was in one William Glenn, against whom, on the eleventh of October, 1855, plaintiff recovered judgment in the District Court for Sixth District, and on the twenty-sixth day of July, 1856, the plaintiff became the purchaser, at Sheriff’s sale, made under the judgment.
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Appeal from the Sixth District, County of Sacramento. The facts as stated in the opinion of the Court, are as follow: This was an action of ejectment to recover a lot in Sacramento city. The title was in one William Glenn, against whom, on the eleventh of October, 1855, plaintiff recovered judgment in the District Court for Sixth District, and on the twenty-sixth day of July, 1856, the plaintiff became the purchaser, at Sheriff’s sale, made under the judgment. It seems that this property was owned by one McPherson, who sold it in payment of a debt to one Eorbes, and that Forbes, desiring to…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
We have given the important questions raised by the record, our most serious attention. The amount involved in this particular case is not considerable, but the principles are of the greatest importance. The questions are not free from difficulty; indeed, they are full of embarrassment, arising not only from several decisions of our own Court, which, to say the least, do not seem altogether consistent, and from the conflicting nature of the decisions in other States and in Great Britain. Upon no subject is it more important that the law should be beyond doubt as to its construction, and…
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