Ferroggiaro
Ferroggiaro v. Board of Public Works
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Nourse, J.
Plaintiff instituted this proceeding against the board of public works of the city and county of Sari Francisco, and the members thereof, and the city and county of San Francisco, a municipal corporation, to restrain them from interfering with his possession of a certain strip of land situated in said city and county and appearing upon the map thereof as portions of Keith Street and Egbert Avenue. The complaint alleges that plaintiff is the owner of a lot of land which is described therein by metes and bounds, being bounded in part by the two streets in question, and referring to a map of the Bay View Homestead Association alleged to have been filed in the office of the county recorder of the city and county of San Francisco June 19, 1872. As to that portion of the land designated upon the map as Keith Street and Egbert Avenue, it is alleged that plaintiff is the owner in fee and that he has been in the open, notorious, and continuous possession thereof through himself and his predecessors for a period of fifty years last past. A windmill and some outhouses are alleged to have been constructed and maintained on those portions of the land designated as streets during all the period…