Adair

Action of ejectment for a parcel of land in Ventura County, in which judgment passed for the defendants. Plaintiff moved for a new trial, which was denied, and he appeals from the judgment, and the order denying his motion.

. The plaintiff claims under a patent of the United States, issued on a confirmed Mexican grant of the rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy. The patent was issued by the United States on the twenty-second day of April, 1872. With the grantee of this patent the plaintiff connects himself by proper mesne conveyances, executed before the commencement of this action.

The main point to be determined herein turns upon the location of the southern boundary line of the rancho above named, which will be herein called the Santa Paula. It is claimed by the plaintiff that the strip of land in controversy herein, lying along the southern boundary of the Santa Paula, of which the defendants were in possession when the action was brought, is within the lines of the patent above mentioned, issued in 1872, while the defendants contend that it is not included within such lines. As to this point testimony was introduced by the parties, and this court is called on to determine whether,…