Bollo v. Navarro
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, First Judicial District, Los Angeles County. This was an action for the partition of a certain lot and improvements in the City of Los Angeles. The plaintiff assorts title and possession of four sevenths by purchase, by deeds of conveyance from Juan Augustin Navarro, Teodoro Navarro, Clement Navarro and Nicoloso Navarro, heirs, each, of one seventh of the estate conveyed, by their mother, Maria Del Carmen Rochini de Navarro.
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Appeal from the District Court, First Judicial District, Los Angeles County. This was an action for the partition of a certain lot and improvements in the City of Los Angeles. The plaintiff assorts title and possession of four sevenths by purchase, by deeds of conveyance from Juan Augustin Navarro, Teodoro Navarro, Clement Navarro and Nicoloso Navarro, heirs, each, of one seventh of the estate conveyed, by their mother, Maria Del Carmen Rochini de Navarro. The plaintiff denies that the ancestor derived a title to the land under a grant of the Ayuntamiento and Government of the City or Pueblo…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sanderson, J.:
The point that the Court below could not try title in this action is answered by the cases of De Uprey v. De Uprey, 27 Cal. 329, and Morenhout v. Higuera, 32 Cal. 289.
Whether Alcalde grants were required to be in writing it *466is unnecessary to consider. The plaintiff failed to show any grant in writing to Carmen Navarro, and if his counsel is correct in his point, that Alcalde grants could be made only by an instrument in writing, it follows that Carmen, under whom he claims, had no title, or at least only such as may be founded upon possession only. We do not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Morenhout v. HigueraCalifornia Supreme Court · 1867
- De Uprey v. De UpreyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
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