Legal Opinion

Hager v. Spect

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1878No. 5306PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the Tenth Judicial District, County of Colusa. Defendant appeals. The action is ejectment; both plaintiff and defendant relying on different chains of title traced from the patentees of the Jimeno Rancho. The opinion states the facts.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court :

Action for the recovery of the possession of block 90, in the Town of Colusa. Both parties claim title under a patent issued *580to Larkin and Missroom, as the confirmees of the Jimeno Grant. The Court below found the title to the undivided five-sixths of the premises in controversy was in the plaintiff, and one-sixth in the defendant. The defendant appeals from the judgment and the order denying a new trial.

The first conveyance by either of the confirmees was made on the 23rd day of September, 1851, and purports to have been made by Larkin, for himself, and by Missroom, by Larkin…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Seeley v. SeymourCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1987
  2. City of Manhattan Beach v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1996
  3. Black v. Solano Co.California Court of Appeal · 1931
  4. Territory of Washington v. KleeWashington Supreme Court · 1890
  5. Harris v. ReedIdaho Supreme Court · 1912

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