Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Stroup

This was an action in ejectment. The demanded premises are a portion of the southwest quarter of section sixteen, township ten, range eight east, of Mount Diablo meridian, for which and other parcels of real property the State of California, on the 22d of April, 1867, issued a patent to B. N. Bugbey. For several years before this patent was issued Bugbey and the defendant Stroup, adversely to each other, occupied separate portions of the quarter section, a picket fence constituting the division line between their claims. And, being in *151possession, on the 24th of July, 1866, they made and…