Editing Trinity County, California (section)

===Boundary dispute with Mendocino County===
In the first half of the 1850s the [[California State Legislature]] established that the boundaries of [[Mendocino County, California|Mendocino]] and Trinity Counties was the [[40th parallel north]]. Both county board of supervisor's hired the [[surveyor]] W.H. Fauntleroy to survey the parallel, which he completed on October 30, 1872. The accuracy of the boundary was doubtful, and by 1891 the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors requested the California surveyor-general to survey the line and establish the boundaries between the two counties. The new line, as surveyed by Sam H. Rice and approved by the [[California Attorney General]] on December 18, 1891, was found to be two miles north of the common boundary surveyed by W.H. Fauntleroy, thereby resulting in Trinity County exercising jurisdiction two miles south of the 40th parallel north. Between 1891 and 1907, both counties claimed that the two mile wide strip of land belonged to themselves and not the other, with both counties attempting to levy and collect [[property tax]] land in said strip. In 1907, Trinity County sued Mendocino County in a [[Tehama County, California|Tehama County]] court to settle the dispute. The [[trial court]] in Tehama County ruled in favor of Trinity County, even though the land was situated south of the 40th parallel and state law stated that lands south of that parallel belonged to Mendocino County. The [[appellate court]] upheld the ruling of the trial court since Section 10 of the special act of March 30, 1872 (Stats. 1871-2, p.&nbsp;766), which concerned this boundary and was the act under which Fauntleroy acted under, authorized the survey of the theretofore unknown location of the 40th parallel north, stated that "the lines run out, marked and defined as required by this act are hereby declared to be the true boundary lines of the counties named herein", thereby making the law in the political code which defined the boundary as the 40th parallel north only a suggestion and not a fact.<ref>{{cite court|litigants=County of Trinity v. County of Mendocino |vol=151 |reporter=Cal. |opinion=279 |pinpoint= |court= |date= |url=https://casetext.com/case/trinity-county-v-mendocino-county}}</ref> The legislature subsequently affirmed this decision, with the modern statute defining the borders of the two counties referencing the survey of Fauntleroy as being the boundary between the two counties instead of the 40th parallel north.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&sectionNum=23153.|title=California Government Code § 23153|publisher=[[California Office of Legislative Counsel]]|date=1947|access-date=January 11, 2024}}</ref>