Sweetland v. Froe

Citations

• 6 Cal. 144

Syllabus

<p>To enable a party to recover lands under the possessory Act of this State, he must have complied with the provisions of the Act.</p> <p>A party who has erected improvements on land, and has sold them to another, cannot afterward, by making a survey and filing affidavit with the county recorder, acquire any right to the possession of land in the possession of another.</p> <p>And, if he conveys subsequently to the same person who purchased the improvements, the latter acquires no rights to any portion of the land attempted to bo pre-empted, except that covered by his actual enclosure.</p>