The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
JUDGE NORToN's DECREE.
It Forever Bars All the Noe
Rights and Titles to
the Tract.
THE DISCOVERY a SURPRISE.
Several Attorneys Give as Their
Opinion That the Decree Is
Most Important.

A decidedly new phase of the celebrated
Noe case, which has been dragging in
the courts for some time, was revealed
yesterday bv old records and the decree of
former suit which without doubt quiets
the title held by the property-own-
ers of Noe Valley. This news, here
given for the first time, will be
joyful tidings to many people having
holdings in the old, often legally fought
over, San Miguel Rancho.
In 1852 Adolph II. Borie began suit
against Jose Jesus Noe. Miguel Noe, Maria
Dolores Noe, Splivalo Noe, Vincente Noe,
Richard Roman, Isaac n. Thorne and Tully
R. Wise in the Twelfth District Court for
possession of one-half of the San Miguel
Rancho a part of which is in Noe Valley.
1t contained 4500acres, excepting AZ blocks
and about 100 acres of land, which would
leave something like 1850 acres The de-
PENDANTS were the children and heirs of Jose
Jesus Noe. the grantee of the rancho, and
they claimed the one-half share of their
dead mother, which the old man Noe had
disposed of when the entire square league
of land had passed out of his imp-ovident
hands.
But the Superior Court in 1856 or 1857,
in the case of Noe VS.. Card, brought by
the heirs to determine the ownershi of a
fifty-vara lot, decided that a Mexican grant
was not common property decided to hus-
band and wife, but was the separate prop
erty OF the grantee, and he could dispose
of it as the sole owner.
On November II, 1860, Judge Edward
Norton entered the following decree,
WI
musty old court records in the Clerk s
Office, and which places a new aspect on
the case:
ENow therefore 1t is ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the title of the plaintiff to the
above described premises is a good and valid
title against the said defendants, and each of
them; and that the said defendants and each
of them, and all persons claiming by, through
or under them be forever barred of all right
title, estate and interest in the said premises
and every part and parcel thereof
EDWARD NORTON,
Judge Twelfth District Court
s. PARSONS, for plaintiffs.
TULLY R. WISE, for defendants.
The present Noe suit was brought by
Miguel Noe, Vincente Noe, Catalina Noe
and Catalina SpIivalo, October 28 1895,
against the following property-owners on
the old San Miguel Rancho:
Sigmund Augustein, Wellington c. Burnett,
n. J. Benson, Richard Bullock, Maria Brandt
William C.. Bush, o. D. Baldwin, Sarah j.
Boyle, Arthur C. Burke, William E. Bower,
Charles c. Blakley, J. Becht, Edwin
D. Bennett, G. H. C. Beckerdorff,
Edward Barnett, May Chambers, Charles
W. Chapman, Hugh Curran Israel
Cohen, William A. Caldwell. Thomas Creag-
mile, Morris A. Cohl, C. W. Courtright, Annie
Doyea, Mary Dunn. P. ]. Duficy Daniel Dono-
van, Gust. w. Dorm, Amand Durat, John Duffy,
H. NJ. G. Dahler, Isaac Eliaser, Mendel
Esberg, James L. Fraser, F. F. Freeman,
Joseph Flach, James Feitelberg Annie Gim-
pei, Michael c. Gorham, Eugene J. Goss,
Golden Gate Park Land and Improvem ent
Company, Carl Griese, Amelie Griese, John j.
Calvin, Mathilda Holling, Milo Hoadley
Henry T. Holmes, Laura T. Holiness Carrie
Hund, B. w. Haines. R. P. Hammond, Mary
Hoesch, Henry D. Johnson, Adelaide S. Jar
dine, Thomas Kelly, Homer s. King, Clement
Kormil, Mark Levi, Mary T. Lawless, B.
Laufranchi, Partk Lyons, Charles Lion
hardt Jr., Ida L. Lovelace, Prudence
NJ. Luckey, John McLaren, Emma
Meyer, Carl A. Muller, Market and Stanyan-
street Land and Impr ovement Company,
Emanuelita McKentry, Johannes Moller
Henry Mauser, William W. Moore Julia P.
Magill, Ida Mentz, Edw. E. Manseau, George
/. Munro, James J. Macdonald, Robert McMil :
Ian, Jorgen Nielsen, Helen G. Noonan, Dennis
Noonan, Julius Newman, Carl E. Olsen.
Mary Post, George H. Porter Henry Pilster,
Bridget Philbon. John II. Pauls, Josepha Pro-
SEX. T. P. H. Penprase, Susie Roche, Frederick
Rothchild, Henry Rothchild Alex Rothen-
stein, John Rogowski, Edgar Strauss Catherine
schiefer, Rebecca Silverstein, Michael J.
Sawyer, Kate Steinmetz, Albert Schohay.
Mary B. Stoner, n. Schlessinger Samuel
NJ. Thompson, Eliza Taylor Mary J.
Turner, Charles Warren, W. B. WaIkup.
Albert Waldier, John j. Walkington, Elsie A
Msyden. Castro-street Land Company, Jacob
Heyman, Solomon Getz, C. G. Kenyon, John
Caine. NJ. A. Austin, D. H. Austin, D. H. Burn
ham, Julius Bernoulh Otto Blankart, J. Buck.
William H. Chapman, NJ W. Connor, Clarence
de Vincent, Amelia S. Damon, Adolph
Keller, Lewis ]. Lapiace, John j. Meyers. N.
ohlandt, Henry Ohlandt, Jean E. Rutherford,
John R. Spring, William NJ. Fitzhugh, James
2. Mccarthy, E. Avery Mccarthy, +. E. Hamil-
ton, Mary f. FitZhugh, Forrest S. Rowley, Otto
Jungblut, George O'Byrne. Joseph /. Lawless.
John II. Rosseter, J. A. Miller, Elsie T.
Niles, Frank A. Geier, John Van Tassell, Mar
garet Mayo. J. B. Lee, H. Lacy, H. E. Chesebro,
VII Stanley, Thomas H. Betchen, Lille
Conklln, Robert II. Blanding, julius Blumen-
thai, Mary h Jewett, l.. H. Bonestell, Annie
7. Dunphy, John Morgan, William Rickerbv.
NJ. Bruins, II. Holman, Behrend Joost, John
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