Hoadley v. City & County of San Francisco

Citations

• 70 Cal. 320
• 12 P. 125
• 1886 Cal. LEXIS 786

Syllabus

<p>San Francisco—Van Ness Ordinance—Title Acquired by—Adverse Possession — Public Squares. — Hoadley v. City and County of San Francisco, 50 Cal. 265, to the effect that the plaintiff acquired no title to the public squares in controversy, either by the Van Ness ordinance or by adverse possession, affirmed.</p> <p>Id.—Selections for Public Squares—Ratification of by Act of March 11, 1858. —The selections of land for public squares in the city of San Francisco made by the commissioners appointed under ordinances Nos. 822 and 845 of the common council, from land lying west of Larkin Street and southwest of Johnston Street, and designated as squares on the map of the commissioners approved by the board of supervisors on the 16th of October, 1856, were ratified and confirmed by the act of the legislature of March 11, 1858, and are consequently valid, although the selections embraced more than one block, and more than one twentieth ' of the land in the possession of one person, and the excess was taken without payment of eompensaton as provided in ordinance No. 822.</p>