Willson

Willson v. Truebody

Good Law
1 Cal. Unrep. 156
Supreme Court of CaliforniaSeptember 5, 1864No. 205California562 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Shafter, J.

Ejectment for a lot of land on the corner of Washington street and Dunbar’s alley in. the city of San Francisco. There is but one point raised by the record which we deem it necessary to consider.

On the 15th of May, 1851, the respondent Truebody filed a bill in the superior court of the city of San Francisco against Allen T. Willson, F. M. Jacobson, Jeremiah Clark, Harvey Sparks and one Guzman, touching the title of the land now in controversy; the defendants Clark, Willson and Sparks answered the bill. The case was tried on the seventeenth day of September, 1851, and thereafter, on the 19th of December, 1851, a decree was entered in favor of the defendants, from which Truebody appealed. The late supreme court at the July term, 1852, reversed the judgment and “ordered adjudged and decreed that the entire legal and equitable title to the lot of ground and premises described in said complaint, was the property of Truebody,” and further “ordered adjudged and decreed that the possession of the said lot of land be delivered up to said complainant, and that a writ of possession be awarded, and the same is hereby ordered to be issued, in favor of the plaintiff by the court below,…

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