Beatty v. Dixon
California Supreme Court
Appeal by certain defendants from a judgment, and order denying a motion for a new trial, in the Sixth District Court, County of Sacramento. Denson, J. After the decision in Department, the appellant filed his petition that the appeal be reheard in Bank, and the application was denied.
1Opinion of the Court
Sharpstein, J.:
This action was commenced against nineteen defendants. It is alleged, among other things in the complaint, that the plaintiff and the defendants are the owners in severalty of a certain tract of land, the boundaries of which, through the lapse of time, the carelessness of occupants, and the absence of natural monuments, have become confused and uncertain. The external lines of the entire tract, and those describing the several subdivisions, of it, have been obliterated, so that no one of the defendants is occupying according to the original boundaries of his claim, which causes…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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