Randall v. Austin
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The Circuit Court of the United States, by a decree entered on the 18th day of May, 1865, confirmed the claim of the City of San Francisco to the pueblo lands. The corporate limits of the City, as defined by the Act of 1851, reincorporating the City, had been subsequently enlarged.
Read the full summary
Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The Circuit Court of the United States, by a decree entered on the 18th day of May, 1865, confirmed the claim of the City of San Francisco to the pueblo lands. The corporate limits of the City, as defined by the Act of 1851, reincorporating the City, had been subsequently enlarged. Before 1866, the title to the pueblo lands lying within the corporate limits of 1851, had been confirmed to the possessors, and the lands lying beyond the boundaries of 1851, were called the outside lands. The population had…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
Order Number Eight Hundred of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, which was afterwards ratified by the Act of the Legislature of March 27th, 1868 (Stats. 1867-8, p, 379), prescribed as one of the conditions on which any person should be entitled to the benefit of the Act of Congress of March 8th, 1866 (14 Stats, at Large, p. 4), the payment by the claimant of certain taxes and assessments on the lands claimed. But no provision was made for a conveyance to the claimant of the legal title in such form that it could be made a matter of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dupond v. BarstowCalifornia Supreme Court · 1873
3Cited by2 opinions
- Baker v. BrickellCalifornia Supreme Court · 1891
- Lawrence v. DoolanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1885