Russell v. Harris

Citations

• 44 Cal. 489

Syllabus

<p>Law of a Case.—The decision of the Supreme Court, made in a case when it is sent back for further proceedings, becomes the law of the case in all its subsequent stages, if the evidence is substantially the same as that upon which the decision was based.</p> <p>Constructive Possession of Land.—The question not decided whether a person who enters into possession of a piece of land under a deed conveying a larger tract, with constructive notice that his grantor had before conveyed the whole tract to another, is so affected by this constructive notice that he cannot say he entered under his deed, believing in good faith that it transferred to him the right to the possession of the whole tract.</p>