Pina v. Peck
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Seventh Judicial District, Sonoma County. José German Pina, on the fourteenth of October, 1843, received a grant of land from the Mexican Government, in what now constitutes the territory of Sonoma County. He died unmarried, leaving several brothers and sisters, Antonio Pina, the father of plaintiff, among the number. Afterwards and in 1853 Antonio Pina died, leaving the will mentioned in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from the District Court, Seventh Judicial District, Sonoma County. José German Pina, on the fourteenth of October, 1843, received a grant of land from the Mexican Government, in what now constitutes the territory of Sonoma County. He died unmarried, leaving several brothers and sisters, Antonio Pina, the father of plaintiff, among the number. Afterwards and in 1853 Antonio Pina died, leaving the will mentioned in the opinion of the Court. Plaintiff brought this' action to recover possession of the land. Defendants claimed title derived from the surviving brothers and sisters. Plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
It is provided in the second section of the statute to regulate descents and distributions that “ every illegitimate child shall be considered as the heir of the person who shall, in writing, signed in the presence of a competent witness, have acknowledged himself to be the father of such child,” etc. This clause of the section was under consideration in the Estate of Samuel Sandford, 4 Cal. 12. The question there was, whether a contract made between Sandford and two other persons for the nursing of the child, in which this language occurs : “We bind ourselves for the…
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