Dupuy v. Leavenworth
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth District. The facts are stated in the opinion of this Court. Leavenworth, Shelly, Baker and Norris were made defendants. The three former appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Baldwin, J. and Cope, J. concurring.
This is a suit on the equity side of the Court to quiet, or rather to perfect, the title of the plaintiffs to certain premises situated within the city of San Francisco. The facts of the case, as established by the evidence embodied in the record, are briefly as follows. In 1847, the defendants, Percy B. Shelly and Samuel Norris, were copartners in mercantile business in San Francisco. In July of that year the authorities of that town sold at public auction certain beach and water lots; and at the sale the defendant Norris bid off the premises described in…
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