Lewis v. Burns
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Joaquin County and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Searls, C.
This is an action to quiet title to two certain lots of land situate and being in Stockton, California.
Defendants had judgment, from which and from an order denying his motion for a new trial plaintiff appeals.
At the trial the evidence showed without contradiction that the plaintiff and Bridget Burns intermarried in 1873, and remained husband and wife until 1892, when the latter died.
About 1877 plaintiff and his wife removed to Stockton, where they lived and kept house, the plaintiff having at the time several horses, a couple of wagons, etc., with which he labored.
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