Klauber

This action was brought by Abraham Klauber and eighteen other plaintiffs against T. J. Higgins and a very large number of other defendants, including the city of San Diego, and the board of harbor commissioners for the bay of San Diego. In the complaint it is averred that the plaintiffs now are, and for a long time hitherto have been, " the owners seised in fee and lawfully entitled to' the possession” of certain lands specifically described as lands embraced by eight different state tide land surveys adjoining each other. The lands thus described lie between low and high tide in the bay of San Diego, adjoining lands embraced in the territory over which extends the municipal government of the city of San Diego. It is averred “ that the defendants above named, while the plaintiffs were so seised and possessed of said lands and premises, and entitled to possession thereof, did, to wit, on the ■—— day of-, 1890, without right or title, enter into and upon the same, and unlawfully took possession thereof, and still unlawfully withhold possession of the same from these plaintiffs, and said defendants claim an estate or interest in the above-described property adverse to the title of…