Meeks v. Hahn
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth Judicial District. This is an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a lot situated within the city of San Francisco.
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Appeal from the Twelfth Judicial District. This is an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a lot situated within the city of San Francisco. Both parties claim title from the same source—from one George Harlan, who died in the county of Santa Clara, in July, 1850. The plaintiff claims under a conveyance from the heirs of Harlan, executed in April, 1854. The defendants claim under conveyances executed by one Aspinwall, who is alleged to have been at the time Administrator of the estate of Harlan, deceased, to purchasers at a sale under an order of the Probate Court, made in…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
This is an action of ejectment for the possession of certain premises situated within the city of San Francisco. It arises out of the same state of facts as the case of Haynes v. Meeks, recently decided by this Court, (ante, 288). It differs from the latter case only in this: that here the plaintiff claims under the conveyance from the heir's of Harlan, deceased, and the defendants claim under purchasers at the sale made under the order of the Probate Court by Aspinwall, the alleged administrator of the estate; whereas, in Haynes v. Meeks, the plaintiff claimed under the sale and conveyance…
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