Satterlee v. Bliss
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The testimony tended to show that in March, 1849, Jonathan D. Stevenson claimed a tract of land of about seventy-seven acres in San Francisco, west of any land then surveyed or occupied, and had the same surveyed, and put two small houses thereon, which he kept occupied by men; that in April, 1850, Stevenson took in with him in the claim Satterlee, the plaintiff, Howard, Hastings,…
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Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The testimony tended to show that in March, 1849, Jonathan D. Stevenson claimed a tract of land of about seventy-seven acres in San Francisco, west of any land then surveyed or occupied, and had the same surveyed, and put two small houses thereon, which he kept occupied by men; that in April, 1850, Stevenson took in with him in the claim Satterlee, the plaintiff, Howard, Hastings, and Morse, and that Parsons afterwards took the place of Morse; that in May, 1850, the parties inclosed the land with a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sawyer, C. J. :
This is an action to recover land in San Francisco. Both parties rely on prior possession in themselves and their grantors, and on title claimed to have been derived under the Van Hess Ordinance.
There is nothing in appellants’ first point. The deed from Satterlee to Reese was certainly admissible, and the deed from Stevenson to Howard ivas referred to in that deed, and was only put in evidence as explanatory of it.
The defendants were strangers to the deed from Stevenson to Reese, and were not precluded from showing the purpose for which it was executed. (1 Greenl.…
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