Semple v. Wright
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Tenth Judicial District, Colusa County. This was an action to recover possession of a lot in the Town of Colusa. The complaint was in the usual form. The answer contains a denial of all the allegations of the complaint, and sets up title in the defendant under the Jimeno Grant. The plaintiff proved title to the demanded premises under the Coins Grant, and the defendant showed title under the Jimeno Grant.
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Appeal from the District Court, Tenth Judicial District, Colusa County. This was an action to recover possession of a lot in the Town of Colusa. The complaint was in the usual form. The answer contains a denial of all the allegations of the complaint, and sets up title in the defendant under the Jimeno Grant. The plaintiff proved title to the demanded premises under the Coins Grant, and the defendant showed title under the Jimeno Grant. The Jimeno Grant was of eleven leagues, and bore date on the 4th day of November, 1844, and was presented to the Board of Laud Commissioners for confirmation…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
The case is presented on a statement which contains a summary of the pleadings and the findings and judgment. -The contest grows out of a conflict between the surveys of the Jimeno Rancho and the Colus Rancho. The facts in relation to the title to each of those ranchos, the confirmation of the titles, the official surveys, the confirmation of the surveys by the District Court, the appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States from the decrees confirming the surveys, and the dismissal of the appeals are substantially the same as are stated in Treadway v. Semple, 28…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Treadway v. SempleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
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