Teschemacher v. Thompson
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth District. This is an action of ejectment to recover a tract of land situated in San Mateo county. On the trial it was admitted that the patent of the United States embraced that part of the demanded premises which was in the possession of the defendants, as stated by them in their amended answer. All other material facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court. The defendants had judgment and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Cope, J. concurring.
This is an action of ejectment to recover the possession of cetain premises situated in San Mateo county, being part of a tract known as the “ San Mateo Rancho.” The plaintiffs are the executors of the last will and testament of W. D. M. Howard, deceased, and base their claim to a recovery upon a patent of the rancho, issued to them as such executors, and Agnes Howard, executrix, by the United States, bearing date in November, 1857. The patent is based upon a grant of the former Mexican Government,, in which one of the boundaries of the rancho is designated as the bay of…
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