Bd. of Educ. of San Francisco v. Fowler
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth District. Ejectment for lot number three hundred and one in San Francisco. The material facts are stated in the opinion of the Court; but it deemed proper to add a few particulars.
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Appeal from the Fourth District. Ejectment for lot number three hundred and one in San Francisco. The material facts are stated in the opinion of the Court; but it deemed proper to add a few particulars. Defendants relied, besides the other grounds of defense, upon a Colton grant of the premises, dated December 25th, 1849, to one Boyd—it being admitted that defendants held by regular chain of conveyance from Boyd; that he was in possession at and before the date of the grant, and that he and bis grantees had been in possession ever since. It was also admitted, in this connection, that at the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
—Field, C. J. and Cope, J. concurring.
Ejectment for a lot in San Francisco.
Questions of importance to the city of San Francisco are involved in the propositions made in this cause. The facts are these. This lot originally belonged to the city or pueblo of San Francisco. It was embraced in the deed made in. 1850, in pursuance of ordinances of the city, numbered forty-nine, sixty-seven and one hundred and twelve, creating the Sinking Fund, which deed the city executed to certain parties styled Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. In May, 1851, an act was passed by the Legislature entitled “An Act…
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