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Ejectment. Plaintiff filed its complaint in this action November 29, 1886, to recover possession of a strip of land extending from Ninth to Eighteenth street, in the city and county of San Francisco, and which was formerly Mission creek. Among the defendants, of whom there is a large number, were Eugene and Georges Leroy, who claimed ownership in and possession of a portion of the land in question, to wit, the northerly and westerly half of Mission creek, extending from Eleventh street (known as “Wood Street” on the Van Ness map) westerly and southerly to a point distant about twenty-six feet four and three-fourths inches southerly from the southerly line of Alameda street extended *596 westerly through this land. The Leroy land embraces quite á large tract, but only the part within the creek is in question. Judgment was given in favor of plaintiff against the Leroys, except as to a small, four-sided tract of land, about twenty-five feet square, situate at the southwest corner of Alameda and Columbia streets, as to which the Leroys had judgment. From that portion of the judgment in favor of plaintiff the Leroys have appealed, and bring the record here by bill of exceptions. No…