Gardner v. County of Sonoma

Opinion

BAXTER, J.

In the matter before us, an owner of property consisting of more than 1,000 acres in the County of Sonoma caused a subdivision map of his land to be recorded in 1865, prior to the earliest origins of California’s Subdivision Map Act (hereafter sometimes the Map Act or the Act) (Gov. Code, § 66410 et seq.). The plaintiffs herein own approximately 158 acres of that land and seek to establish that their property consists of 12 lawfully subdivided parcels that may be sold, leased, or financed in compliance with the Act. As they see it, the 1865 subdivision map should be given…