Savage

Pickering Light & Water Co. v. Savage

Good Law
1902 Cal. LEXIS 910·6 Cal. Unrep. 985·69 P. 846
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJuly 24, 1902L. A. No. 1079California296 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Smith, J.

This is a suit to quiet title to the land described in the complaint. The judgment was for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals from an order denying his motion for new trial.

The defendant is the owner of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 22, township 2 south, range 11 west, and the plaintiff, of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the section named, and also of section 23 of the same township, adjoining section 22 on the east. The land in controversy is a strip of land along the eastern and northern boundaries of defendant’s land, claimed by the plaintiff and the defendant, respectively, to be within their several tracts. The questions involved relate to the location of the southeast corner of section 22, and to an alleged practical location of the north and east boundaries of the section by a survey made by the plaintiff in the year 1887, agreed to or acquiesced in by the defendant. To the latter contention *986 the evidence cited by the appellant gives some color; but, unfortunately, with the best disposition to do so, we are precluded from examining the question by the lack of any specifications of insufficiency of evidence, with…

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