People v. President & Trustees of College of California
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth District, City and County of San Francisco. This case was submitted to the Court upon an agreed statement, the following extract from which fully exhibits the origin and nature of the controversy: In the year 1855 the College of California was incorporated as a College of Science and Letters, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled “An Act to provide for the Incorporation of…
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth District, City and County of San Francisco. This case was submitted to the Court upon an agreed statement, the following extract from which fully exhibits the origin and nature of the controversy: In the year 1855 the College of California was incorporated as a College of Science and Letters, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled “An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Colleges,” passed April 20,1850, and the several Acts amendatory thereof. The Trustees of said College received, from time…
1Opinion of the CourtCrockett, J.
This is an action to quiet the title of the State of California to a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land, situate near the City of Oakland, on which it is proposed to erect the State University; and the only question for our decision on this appeal is, whether or not the conveyance from the President and Trustees of the College of California to the State, under the facts stated in the agreed case, was and is operative in law to vest the title in the State. In other words, whether or not, upon the agreed facts, the President and Trustees of the College had the power in law to convey *170th…
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