Andreu v. Watkins
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns county. STATEMENT. Appellee recovered judgment in an action of ejectment brought against appellants, (husband and wife,) for a piece of land in the City of St. Augustine and described in the declaration as follows : A strip of land being the east end or portion of a certain lot conveyed by Lizzie Andreu and Michael Andreu, her husband, to Mildred Watkins by deed dated April 5, 1884, recorded in Book CC, on page 435, etc., of the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns county. STATEMENT. Appellee recovered judgment in an action of ejectment brought against appellants, (husband and wife,) for a piece of land in the City of St. Augustine and described in the declaration as follows : A strip of land being the east end or portion of a certain lot conveyed by Lizzie Andreu and Michael Andreu, her husband, to Mildred Watkins by deed dated April 5, 1884, recorded in Book CC, on page 435, etc., of the public records of St. Johns county, commencing at the southwest corner of the said lot on the north side of Mulberry…
1Opinion of the CourtRaney, C. J.
It is certain that the land intended to be conveyed by Miss Abbott to Mrs. Andreu by the deed of June 23d, 1882, was bounded on the west by Orange street; or, in other words, that the eastern line of Orange street, as that street was actually located by the survey which the map of the North City of St. Augustine, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of St, Johns county on the 14th day of May, 1877, was intended to represent, was made the western boundary, and the land conveyed was that extending east from Orange street one hundred and fifty feet, and north from Mulberry…
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