Hudson

The court below erred in refusing to allow defendant to prove the fact relating to the Peabody survey. The deed from Hood and "Wilson to the Hudsons describes the land conveyed as follows: “Beginning at a point of the Arroyo de los Alamos, where it is crossed by the northern line of the G-uillicos Rancho; thence following down the centre of the Alamos Creek to its junction with the Santa Rosa Creek; thence running south parallel with the western line of said rancho to the southern boundary; thence along the southern boundary to a junction with a straight line running northeasterly, in a line with two oak trees in the valley, marked and branded and situate in the plain of the G-uillicos; thence north seventeen degrees and thirty minutes east from the magnetic meridian, through the aforesaid two oak trees, till reaching the northern? boundary of said rancho; thence following the northern boundary of said rancho in a westerly direction to the point of beginning. The above description to be according to a survey made by the county surveyor of Sonoma, in the year one thousand *454 eight hundred and fifty-one, the above-described property being a part of the rancho known as the…