Silva v. Azevedo

Ejectment to recover a strip of land containing about six and one-half acres. Judgment went for plaintiffs, and the defendants appeal.

The plaintiffs are the successors in interest of Manuel Silva. The defendants are husband and wife. For purposes of statement and discussion, we may treat the case as if Manuel Silva were the plaintiff and Joseph V. Azevedo the sole defendant.

In 1908, Azevedo purchased a tract of farming land, containing something.over 126 acres, in Sacramento. The parcel was quadrilateral, its easterly and westerly lines being parallel, the southerly line meeting these at…