Legal Opinion · Dissent

Harris v. Blake

California Supreme Court

Decided May 26, 1882No. 7,146Published

Appeal from a judgment for defendant, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Third District Court of the- County of Alameda. McKee, J.

1Dissent

McKee, J.:

I dissent. The men who entered into the adverse possession of a portion of that part of the territory of Alameda *504county, known to the claimants of the Peralta Rancho as the Encinal of San Antonio, caused the land upon which they had entered to be surveyed and divided into blocks and public squares, intersected by streets, a map of which was made, and has been since known as Kellersberger’s Map of the Town of Oakland.

When the owners of the Spanish title to the Encinal lands came to make partition among themselves as tenants in common of their lands, which lay within- and without the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Dodge v. Freedman's Savings & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
  2. City of San Francisco v. CanavanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1872
  3. Vance v. ForeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1864
  4. Haley v. AmestoyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1872
  5. Jackson ex dem. Van Alen v. VosburghNew York Supreme Court · 1810

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