Tripp v. Duane
California Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco refusing a new trial. The action was brought to quiet title to an undivided interest in certain land.
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Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco refusing a new trial. The action was brought to quiet title to an undivided interest in certain land. The agreement referred to in the opinion, as contained in folios 109 to 113 of the transcript, is as follows:— “We, George W. Ellis, Creed Haymond, and C. P. Duane, hereby grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto William H. Patterson all the estate, title, and interest which we either and all of us now have, or may hereafter acquire, of, in, and to the land described, and intended to be described, in a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtSearls, C. J.
J. — This is an action by plaintiff to quiet his title to thirty-three ninety-sixths of the real estate described in the complaint.
In 1853 George W. Ellis filed in the recorder’s office of the city and county of San Francisco a pre-emption claim on one hundred and sixty acres of salt-marsh and tide-land belonging to the state of California.
Between that time and October 21,1875, said Ellis executed to different parties bargain and sale deeds of undivided portions of said claim, amounting in the aggregate to thirty-three ninety-sixths of the whole claim, find the grantees of said undivided…
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