Supreme Court of California

Recordation of a subdivision map in 1865 did not establish or create legally cognizable subdivisions for purposes of California's Subdivision Map Act, notwithstanding the map's claimed accuracy and its inclusion in the 1877 atlas.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2003
• Published 02/06/2003

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Perry, Johnson, Murray, Anderson & Miller, Perry, Johnson, Murray, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz, Leslie R. Perry, Santa Rosa, and Jessica R. Flores for Plaintiffs and Appellants., James S. Burling, Sacramento, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Craig J. Bassett, Morgan Hill, for Richard van't Rood as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven M. Woodside, County Counsel, and Sue A. Gallagher, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent., Stephen Shane Stark, County Counsel (Santa Barbara), and Alan L. Seltzer, Assistant County Counsel, for the County of Santa Barbara as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Daniel J. Curtin, Jr., Robert E. Merritt and Geoffrey L. Robinson, Walnut Creek, for the California State Association of Counties and Participating California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., M. Thomas Jacobson for American Planning Association and the California Chapter of the American Panning Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Jonathan Wittwer for Granada Sanitary District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Assistant Attorney General, and  Jamee Jordan Patterson, Deputy Attorney General, for California Coastal Commission as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.