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2 Cal. Unrep. 415

Ganahl v. Soher

California Supreme Court

Decided December 9, 1884

California Supreme Court · decided 1884-12-09

<p>APPEAL from the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco.</p>

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““Under the rule prescribed by the section last quoted, Henry Gordon Ganahl became of age the first minute of the eleventh day of April, 1876, and by virtue of section 328 of the Code of Civil Procedure he was entitled to commence an action for the recovery of whatever interest he had in the land within the period of five years thereafter, but not after the expiration of that period. In computing the period of five years we must include the eleventh day of April, 1876, because, as the plaintiff in question attained his majority the first minute of that day, he had the whole of the day in which to sue; and computing that as the first day of the five years, the whole period of five years expired with the tenth day of April, 1881, and the action not having been commenced until the eleventh of April, 1881, was barred by the provisions of the statute.” (The application of section 10 of the Civil Code to those facts was not considered.)”

quoted by 2 later decisions, including Shalabi v. City of Fontana, 53 Cal. App. 2d 181 - People v. Dudley

““The periods specified in the preceding section must be calculated from the first minute of the day on which persons are born to the same minute of the corresponding day completing the period of minority.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including 53 Cal. App. 2d 181 - People v. Dudley

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1884-12-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2021

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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ROSS, J.

¶1The plaintiffs claim title to the lot of land in controversy as the heirs at law of Henry Ganahl, who died intestate, in the state of Georgia, on the twelfth day of May, 1855. That whatever rights, if any, the plaintiffs Maria Ann and Ann Elizabeth Ganahl acquired in the premises as such *416heirs at law became barred by the provisions of the statute of limitations prior to the commencement of this action, admits of no question. The remaining plaintiff, Henry Gordon Ganahl, was born April 11, 1855. Sections 25 and 26 of the Civil Code of this state provide:

“Sec. 25. Minors are (1) males under twenty-one years of age; (2) females under eighteen years of age.
“Sec. 26. The periods specified in the preceding section must be calculated from the first minute of the day on which persons are born to the same minute of the corresponding day completing the period of minority.”

¶2Under the rule prescribed by the section last quoted, Henry Gordon Ganahl became of age the first minute of the eleventh day of April, 1876, and by virtue of section 328 of the Code of Civil Procedure he was entitled to commence an action for the recovery of whatever interest he had in the land within the period of five years thereafter, but not after the expiration of that period. In computing the period of five years we must include the eleventh day of April, 1876, because, as the plaintiff in question attained his majority the first minute of that day, he had the whole of the day in which to sue; and computing that as the first day of the five years, the whole period of five years expired with the tenth day of April, 1881, and the action not having been commenced until the 11th of April, 1881, was barred by the provisions of the statute. We are not, therefore, called upon to consider any other question in the case.

¶3Judgment and order affirmed.

¶4We concur: McKee, J.; McKinstry, J.

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