Higueras v. United States

This is au. appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, confirming the survey of a private land claim. Appeals in *829such cases are authorized by the fifth section of the act of the fourteenth of June, 1860, if applied for within six mouths after the date of the decree, and it is under that special provision that the present controversy is now before the court.

I. 1. Origiual claimant acquired a possessory right todhe tract of land situate in Santa Clara County, California, and called Tularcitos, on the fourth of October, 1821, by…