Gregory v. McPherson
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Seventh District. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
This was ejectment to recover two hundred and seventeen acres of land in Contra Costa County, described in the complaint, as a part of the Rancho los Nueces or San Miguel.
It was admitted on the trial, that the land sued for was within the boundaries of the Rancho San Miguel, that defendant had been in the possession of the land since October,-1857, and that the executors of Juana Sanchez de Pacheco, (to the latter of whom a grant is claimed to have been made by the Mexican' Governor, Figueroa, in 1833,) executed a deed to the plaintiff of this tract.
The District Court nonsuited the plaintiff,…
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