Powers v. Jackson
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, County of Yolo. Ejectment to recover a belt of land fourteen feet wide on the south side of lot number one, in Elliott’s addition to the town of Woodland, county of Yolo. Elliott owned a tract of land in Woodland and platted it into lots as an addition to the town. It was 645 feet wide, east and west, and 13325 feet long, north and south.
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Appeal from the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, County of Yolo. Ejectment to recover a belt of land fourteen feet wide on the south side of lot number one, in Elliott’s addition to the town of Woodland, county of Yolo. Elliott owned a tract of land in Woodland and platted it into lots as an addition to the town. It was 645 feet wide, east and west, and 13325 feet long, north and south. The tract was in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two, township ten north, range two east, Mount Diablo meridian. Messinger acquired Elliott’s right, and, November 3,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court :
In case of a conveyance of land described only as being a township or subdivision of a township, the actual survey and monuments of the United States surveyor are referred to on the face of the deed, since there is and can be no “ township ” on the public lands of the United States, except such as has been thus actually surveyed and marked.
The deed from Messinger to Giddings, therefore (if the map referred to and the note on the margin thereof be incorporated in the deed), contains a sufficient description. It refers to physical objects on the surface of the earth, to *433wit, the…
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