De Merle v. Mathews
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The Court below granted the new trial on the ground that it had erred in excluding the copies offered by the plaintiff from the books of record kept by the Alcalde. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Currey, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought for the recovery of a lot—No. 76, one hundred varas square—in the City of San Francisco. The defendants filed separate answers to the complaint, denying the plaintiff’s alleged title, and setting up title in themselves, severally, to distinct portions of the premises, and also pleading the Statute of Limitations. The cause was tried before a jury, and on the trial the defendants, in compliance with a written notice from the plaintiff, produced certain original document's, as follows:
1st. A petition of Francisco Sanchez, bearing…
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