Sabichi v. Aguilar
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District, County of Los Angeles. This was an action of ejectment, commenced April 13th, 1868, for a lot in the City of Los Angeles.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District, County of Los Angeles. This was an action of ejectment, commenced April 13th, 1868, for a lot in the City of Los Angeles. Defendants answered, setting up the Statute of Limitations and adverse possession thereunder since 1856. The cause was tried, without a jury, in September, 1869, and the Court below found as facts the holding by the plaintiff of the pueblo title, and the various circumstances relating to its confirmation, survey, and approval of survey, as set forth in the opinion of Justice Wallace, and concluded as…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Wallace, J.:
The plaintiff deraigns title to the premises in controversy (a lot in the City of Los Angeles) by grant from the municipal authorities; and the only question presented upon this appeal is the effect of the Statute of Limitations pleaded by the defendant in bar of the action.
The claim of the city as successor of the Pueblo of Los Angeles, including the lot in controversy, was duly confirmed under the Act of Congress of March 3d, 1851, pro-*290Tiding for the settlement of private land claims in California; but no patent pursuant to such confirmation has been issued by the…
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