Spect v. Gregg
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Tenth Judicial District, County of Colusa,. Ejectment to recover lots five and six in block thirty-five, in the town of Colusa, county of Colusa. The town of Colusa is on a grant of eleven leagues made by the Mexican nation to Manuel Jimeno.
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Appeal from the District Court, Tenth Judicial District, County of Colusa,. Ejectment to recover lots five and six in block thirty-five, in the town of Colusa, county of Colusa. The town of Colusa is on a grant of eleven leagues made by the Mexican nation to Manuel Jimeno. Jimeno conveyed the grant to Thomas O. Larkin and John S. Missroon, on the 30th of August, 1847. The United States confirmed the Jimeno grant, and patented it to Larkin and Missroon, on the 18th day of July, 1862. Both parties claimed under Larkin and Missroon. The plaintiff, after introducing in evidence the patent to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court:
It is not necessary to inquire whether the record of the Spanish document, purporting to be a deed from Manuel Jimeno to* Thomas 0. Larkin and John S. Missroon "was erroneously admitted in evidence. Both parties to the present action claim to deraign title from Larkin and Missroon, and the conveyance to them from Jimeno was not necessary to the plaintiff’s case. If, therefore, the court below erred in admitting the record, it was an error "which could not have injured the defendant.
The deed from Larkin and Missroon contains a sufficient description of the land in controversy, the…
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