Bludworth v. Lake (No. 1.)
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifth Judicial District, San Joaquin County. The defendant had judgment in the Court below, but the Court dismissed defendant’s cross-complaint. The defendant appealed, and assigned that the Court erred in dismissing defendant’s cross-complaint for equitable relief. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sawyer, J. :
This is an action to recover land. The defendant, after denying the allegations of the complaint, sets up an equitable title in himself to a portion of the land claimed, and by way of counter claim, asks that the plaintiff be adjudged to convey the legal title.
*260In September, 1855, after the lands herein mentioned had been surveyed by the United States, and the plats filed, one Snelling located State School Land Warrant Number One Hundred Ninety-Eight on a tract of three hundred and twenty acres, embracing a portion of the land in dispute. In January, 1857, said…
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