Martin
Martin v. Zellerbach
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Shafter, J.
Ejectment to recover the possession of certain ditch property situate in the county of Nevada. The defendants set up an equitable title to the ditch older than the legal title of the plaintiff, both titles being derived from the Eureka Lake Company, as a common source. The trial was by the court, and the judgment was in favor of the defendants. The appeal is from the judgment and from an order overruling the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. The appeal from the order is of no avail, for the evidence is not set forth in the statement, and the exceptions relied on are so imperfectly “explained” therein (Practice Act, see. 190) that we cannot say that the rulings to which they relate are erroneous; and *336 the same remark is applicable to the appeal from the judgment in so far as it is based upon those exceptions. The result is that the only question before us is as to the law of the facts found, or agreed, and now relied on by the defendants as the basis of the equitable title asserted by them. This state of the record relieves us from the necessity of considering many of the questions discussed in the briefs of counsel.