Craig v. Leitensdorfer
Supreme Court of the United States
Under the treaty with Mexico of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Cornelio Yigil and Ceran St. Train claimed title, under a Mexican grant made in 1843, to a large tract of land embraced within the Huerfano, Pisipa, and Cucharos Rivers to their junction with the Arkansas and Animas, known as the Las Animas grant, and supposed to cover and include about 922 square leagues, lying in the Territory of New Mexico, but within the limits of the present State of Colorado, and equivalent to four…
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Under the treaty with Mexico of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Cornelio Yigil and Ceran St. Train claimed title, under a Mexican grant made in 1843, to a large tract of land embraced within the Huerfano, Pisipa, and Cucharos Rivers to their junction with the Arkansas and Animas, known as the Las Animas grant, and supposed to cover and include about 922 square leagues, lying in the Territory of New Mexico, but within the limits of the present State of Colorado, and equivalent to four millions of acres. By the act to confirm certain private land claims in the Territory of New.Mexico, approved June 21,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
By reference to the provisions of the act of the 21st of June, 1860,12 Stat. 71, and of the act of the 25th of February, 1869, 15 Stat. 275, it will appear that after the survey of the exte rior lines of the Las Animas grant, the claims first to be provided for were those of all actual settlers holding possession under “ titles or promises to settle ” made by Yigil and St. Yrain, or their legal representatives, prior to the passage of the act. It was required that those claims, within one year from the passage of the act, should be established to the satisfaction of the register and receiver…
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