Crespin v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAUD CLAIMS. This was a petition by Crespin and about forty others for the confirmation of what is commonly known as the San Antonito grant, situated in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, and alleged' to contain 32,000 acres.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAUD CLAIMS. This was a petition by Crespin and about forty others for the confirmation of what is commonly known as the San Antonito grant, situated in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, and alleged' to contain 32,000 acres. Plaintiffs claimed as the heirs and legal representatives of the original grantees, and set forth in their petition that, on March 24, 1840, the Republic of Mexico, through Antonio Sandoval, “the prefect or superior political chief of the district of Bernalillo, thereunto duly authorized by the laws,, usages, customs, superior orders and…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Beoww,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.. The principal question urged upon the attention of the court in this case is whether, under the laws of Mexico, as they existed in 1840, it was within the power of a prefect to make a grant of public lands.
In endeavoring to ascertain what were, the laws of Mexico at any particular time, of which we are bound to táke judicial notice, Fremont v. United States, 17 How. 542, 557; Romero v. United States, 1 Wall. 721, we are somewhat embarrassed by the frequency with which the government was changed — usually by…
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