Mendenhall v. Paris

Belcher, C. C.

This is an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit in an action to quiet title to 51.20 acres of land in Alameda County. The land in controversy is described as a strip three and one half miles long, 4.62 chains wide at one end, and running to a point at the other end.

The plaintiff alleged in his complaint that the strip was a part of a Mexican grant called the rancho El Valle de San José, which was patented by the United States to Antonio Sunol and others on the 15th of March, 1865. The defendants denied that the strip constituted any part of the rancho named, or that plaintiff had…