Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-02
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
AN INTEREsTING CASE
The Contest Over the Closing of the
Sheldon Grant Line Road


Sheldon Grant Line Road
There is on trial before Judge Van Fleet in
Department One of the Superior Court a case
that Is OF unusual Importance to the people OF
the county, and is attracting great deal of at.
tention. Ii feet, there are three suits being
tried together, being A. NJ. Plumner. as Road
Overseer of District No. s, against w. c. Shell.
don, A. a. Null and Sarah w. Belcher Tho
trial commenced on Tuesday of last week and
testimony was taken for three days when the
1urtner nearing was postponed until Thursday
ofthis week
The suits are brought to remove obStr1,o,ions
placed by the defendants within the mast faIv
years on what is known as the Sheldon Grant
Line Road II is an undisputed fact that in
1903, shortly after what is known as the KleaI
suryey-a survey made by order of the Probate
Court OF Sacramento county-was filed in the
ollce OF the County Recorder the Board of
t ,s mace an order appointing viewers
ported that they had viewed out a road on the
grant hns-the line of the Kleal suryey-from
tne d Upper stockton road to the Sacramento
ana jackson road, distance of about
twelve miles. At that time the whole
country was open and the Board followed the
general dlreetion or very close to the Kleal sur
time survey made by ]. G. Thomn
son was recognized by the United States
1oNer1mehs . as oelng the correct survey of the
grant line, and 1t differed somewhat from the
kleal survey, throwing the grant line over into
Government land. Some of the parties-land
owners above Sheldon-feneed from the road
on the Kleal survey, throwing the road ON the
thompson survey, and the road was fenced on
the line of the Thompson survey above the
land now owned by the defendant Belcher
From there on the line was not fenced until
within about four years.
Prior to 1871 nearly the whole country was
open and there were many roads crossing in
different directions. North of the Jackson
ROAD, however, the road continued and is now
open on the line of the Thompson survey from
the jackson road to the old HauptoWn or PLACER
vile road 1t is not claimed by the nIointiff in
tne case that the records of the Board of Super
vlsors are sufficiently complete to show the es-
tablishment of road by proceedings of the
BOARD OF supervisors, but it is claimed that the
road should be opened because of the same
haVi1g been established by dedication 1t is
shown that there is now a line twenty-fol1r feet
wide between the lands of Mr.. Sheldon and Mr.
Null, where the grant line crosses the Jackson
Ipaoi put II Is clalmed by those defendants that
the line was not lett open for a road, but be-
cause when the fences were built it was not
known exactly where the line of the Thompson
survey ran.
=, The testimony in the case is interesting, from
tne TACT tnat the road being first Travelled about
on Its present line since 1883 IL became necessary
TO establish the lines of the two SURVEYS by the
memory of residents of that period, and on the
part OF both plaintiff and defendants many wit
nesSes have been introduced who have lived in
that immediate neighborhood from the wear
1850 to this day
The Ioad, if opened, will establish continu-
Gus road in straight line. upwards of twenty
hve miles IN length, connect three great roads
OF sacramento county-the Sac ramento and
Placervile road, known as the old Hangtown
road, the Sacramento and jackson road known
as the Jackson road and the Upper Stockton
road-runnlng from point near HcConnelfs
on the upper stockton road to the Halfway
House, owned by ]. E Butler, ON the old Hang
town road.