Frink v. Alsip
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, County of Sacramento. Ejectment to recover the east quarter of lot three, and the west half of lot four in the block between Seventh and Eighth, and M and 17 streets, city of Sacramento.
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Appeal from the District Court, Sixth Judicial District, County of Sacramento. Ejectment to recover the east quarter of lot three, and the west half of lot four in the block between Seventh and Eighth, and M and 17 streets, city of Sacramento. The plaintiff and the defendant’s former husband, A. B. Alsip, were brothers-in-law and partners in farming, raising stock and making butter and cheese, in the State of Indiana and in this State, from 1842 to 1867. The plaintiff and his family came to California in 1850, and left the defendant and her husband in Indiana. After the arrival of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court:
The copy of the letter of attorney to Schoolcraft was admitted in the Court below without objection, and no point as to its admissibility in evidence can be made now. Upon its face it purported to vest a sufficient authority in the attorney in fact to convey the title of Sutter. It results that Frink established in himself the legal title to the premises.
The defense of the statute of limitations relied upon by Mrs. Alsip cannot avail her in this action. It is not pretended that her husband at any time occupied the premises in hostility to the title of Frink; and during the…
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