Greely v. Townsend
California Supreme Court
Motion for a citation to the respondent, on a writ from the United States Circuit Court for California to this Court. The case of Greely v. Townsend and Powelson has not been reported, as it did not involve any point of law not already passed on. It was an action of ejectment brought to recover possession of the western half of Fifty-vara Lot Number One Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-eight, in the City and County of San Francisco.
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Motion for a citation to the respondent, on a writ from the United States Circuit Court for California to this Court. The case of Greely v. Townsend and Powelson has not been reported, as it did not involve any point of law not already passed on. It was an action of ejectment brought to recover possession of the western half of Fifty-vara Lot Number One Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-eight, in the City and County of San Francisco. The defendants, on the trial, offered to deraign a title from an execution sale on a judgment against the city, and offered to show by a decree of confirmation by…
1Opinion of the CourtSanderson, C. J.
At the last term of this Court a judgment was rendered in this case affirming the judgment of the Court below. The defendant, against whom the judgment was rendered, now presents a writ of error, addressed to the Justices of this Court, issued by the Clerk of the.Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, and applies to me as Chief Justice of the Court for a citation to the defendant in error. The application is made under the provisions of the twenty-fifth section of an Act of Congress, passed on the 24th of September, 1789, entitled “An Act to establish the…
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