Merriman v. Bourne

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The only facts necessary to be noticed under the views we have adopted with regard to this ease are the following: On the 15th April, 1847. S. E.' Woodworth obtained from Edwin Bryant, alcalde of San Francisco, a grant for the 100-vara lot known as No. 22, and which embraces the premises in controversy. Shortly after receiving this grant he appears to have taken possession of the lot and enclosed it with a fence, which remained for some months, but which in 1849 had either fallen down or been removed by parties who entered on the premises, claiming under a grant made…