People v. Culverwell
California Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe Seventeenth Judicial District, County of San Diego. Action to recover taxes assessed for tbe year 1869 on Lot B, Block 765; Lot A, Block 773; Lot B, Block 773; Lot E, Block 765; Lots E, II, and I, same block; Block 743, Block 559, Block 567, Block 568, Block 571, Block 632, Block 659, Block 662, and west half of Lot 1148, eighty acres in tbe City of San Diego.
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Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe Seventeenth Judicial District, County of San Diego. Action to recover taxes assessed for tbe year 1869 on Lot B, Block 765; Lot A, Block 773; Lot B, Block 773; Lot E, Block 765; Lots E, II, and I, same block; Block 743, Block 559, Block 567, Block 568, Block 571, Block 632, Block 659, Block 662, and west half of Lot 1148, eighty acres in tbe City of San Diego. The complaint averred that defendant Culverwell owned the property and that it was assessed to him. The defendant Culverwell demurred to the complaint, the Court overruled the demurrer, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
The complaint in this case appears to be drawn with more than usual care and skill. It does not appear whether the blocks of land which were assessed to the defendant had been subdivided. If they had not been subdivided, they were properly assessed and described in the complaint by blocks; and if they had been subdivided, still that description was sufficient, as they were assessed to the defendant as the owner. (People v. Morse, 43 Cal. 534.)
Improvements on real estate are, by section five of the General Revenue Act of 1861, classed as personal property; but section…
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