Hildebrand

Hildebrand v. Hall

Good Law
1936 Cal. LEXIS 610·7 Cal. 2d 162·59 P.2d 988
Supreme Court of CaliforniaAugust 4, 1936Sac. No. 4812California335 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Waste, J.

In this action in ejectment involving the location of a boundary line between property of plaintiff and defendants in Lake County, judgment went for plaintiff. The trial court found that there were no witness trees or other monuments marking a common corner of the sections involved; that the corner had been lost and obliterated; that the nearest known and established corners of sections to the north and south established the corner in controversy at the point described in the findings.

*163 The appellant Frieda Hall contends that there is no evidence to support any of the court’s findings, and the argument is directed against the proportional method of ascertainment of the corner used by the trial court; that the location is at variance with natural objects described in the field notes; and that the court erroneously found that corners nearer the corner in question than the ones used by the court were not known and could not be located. A deed to plaintiff, maps, copy of field notes certified by an official of the United States land office in Washington, D. C., showing boundaries of sections of land material to the claims of the parties, and the record of a United States patent…

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