Legal Opinion

Terrill v. Groves

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1861PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the Fifth District., Ejectment for lots two, six, thirteen and fourteen, in block twenty-eight, in the city of Stockton. Plaintiff claims under a tax deed from the Tax Collector of San Joaquin county. The answer denies the regularity of the tax proceedings, and pleads payment of the tax. On the first Monday in April, 1858, at the time of the assess■ment, these lots, with others in Stockton, belonged to one Alonzo Green, a nonresident.

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Appeal from the Fifth District., Ejectment for lots two, six, thirteen and fourteen, in block twenty-eight, in the city of Stockton. Plaintiff claims under a tax deed from the Tax Collector of San Joaquin county. The answer denies the regularity of the tax proceedings, and pleads payment of the tax. On the first Monday in April, 1858, at the time of the assess■ment, these lots, with others in Stockton, belonged to one Alonzo Green, a nonresident. The whole was valued at $1,050, and assessed at nineteen dollars and forty-two cents, and set forth on the assessment roll as follows : On the…

1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.

Field, C. J. and Cope, J. concurring.

Ejectment for several lots in a certain block in the city of Stockton. The plaintiff claims under a tax deed. It seems that these lots were assessed as the property of one Alonzo Green. » They were separately listed, but valued jointly, and the aggregate tax on all of them, and of two other lots in other blocks, set down. The lots sued for were contiguous to each other, and formed a part of block number twenty-eight on the plan of the city. These lots were put up and sold together for the aggregate amount of this tax. The appellants contend that this was…

2Cited by14 opinions

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