People v. City
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
McKinstry, J/.
—The appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendant, based upon an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
The prayer of the plaintiff is, that the title of the plaintiff to the premises in question be forever quieted against adverse claims of the defendant, etc., and for other and further relief.
The complaint avers that the land in controversy is “swamp and overflowed,” and also that it is “tide-land,” lying below the line of ordinary high tides.
*391It cannot be both “swamp and overflowed” land, included in those ceded- by the United States to the state by the act of…
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