Irving v. Cunningham

ROSS, J.:

Appeal from an order made by the Superior Court of Alameda County, granting a new trial in a case tried before the late District Court of that county. The principal question in the case relates to the proper location of one of the calls of the deed executed by Domingo Peralta to Hall McAllister and others, on the 16th of August, 1853. The language of the deed describing the northern boundary line of the land conveyed by it is: “A line drawn from a point two hundred varas south of a house occupied by a squatter named Espejo, and passing to a point at a small creek (un arroyito), about…