Whitney v. Buckman

By the Court, Sawyer, J.

Plaintiffs sued to recover one hundred and sixty acres of land in Napa County, upon which there were certain mineral | springs, well known by the name of Soda Springs, and recovered judgment. After verdict, and pending a motion for a new trial, plaintiffs filed a petition, supported by several affidavits, alleging their title to the lands, and stating that they derived title to an undivided half thereof through a Sheriff’s deed, in pursuance of a sale under a decree foreclosing a mortgage entered against the defendant Buckman; that they had been put in possession under…