Bensinger

Miller v. Bensinger

Good Law
1892 Cal. LEXIS 1038·3 Cal. Unrep. 704·31 P. 578
Supreme Court of CaliforniaDecember 9, 1892No. 14,174California619 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Foote, J.

This is an action in ejectment for the recovery of a strip of land less than two feet in width, extending along the side of a lot occupied by the defendant. Judgment was given for the latter, from which and an order denying a new trial the plaintiff appeals.

It appears that the parties bought adjoining lots, under a certain survey. That about twenty-five years after the defendant took possession under his deed, occupied, fenced, and built upon what he supposed to be his lot of land, and which included that in controversy here, it appeared under a new survey for the city and county of San Francisco, where the land is situated, that he had in possession a lot of land wider by not quite two feet than his deed called for; and that the lot in possession of the plaintiff was thirty feet wide, less the same number of inches. Hence the plaintiff claimed that the defendant was by mistake in possession of a part of her lot, and sued for it.

The only question at issue, as we think, is whether the evidence supports the findings of fact in reference to the defense of the statute of limitations under sections 318 and 319 *705 of the Code of Civil Procedure, set up by defendant. There is no…

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