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79 Cal. 140

Gage v. Downey

California Supreme Court

Decided May 6, 1889

California Supreme Court · decided 1889-05-06

The record did not contain the notice of motion for new trial, nor did the statement embody or refer to the notice, and a motion to dismiss the appeal was made upon this ground.

Relies on Packard v. Johnson

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Decided 1889-05-06

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Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1925

8 state decisions

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Beatty, C. J.

¶1The rehearing is denied.

¶2The sentence “all the land set apart as a homestead to Warner and wife, with other land, is included in the patent to Warner,” is stricken from the opinion.

¶3As to the defense of the statute of limitations, which, it is claimed, is found in favor of defendants, in our *159opinion no adverse possession is found by the cdurt in the finding referred to. The case in this respect is similar to Packard v. Johnson, 57 Cal. 182, where it was held that adverse possession was not found, the court remarking as to the finding that while the facts found tended to prove adverse possession, yet the facts did not necessarily constitute adverse possession.”

¶4It will be observed that the action was commenced against all the defendants, except the Merchants’ Exchange Bank of San Francisco, within five years after the patent was issued, and so was in time. The statute of limitations did not then run against such defendants. As to the bank, as stated above, there is no finding of adverse possession by it.

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