McKinney v. Saviego
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the district court of the United States for the district of Texas. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the district court of the United States for the district of Texas. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. The arguments involved many points of the old Mexican law, but the principal one was thus stated by Mr. Hale, in his ad-' ditional brief:— The plaintiffs, in their petition, describe themselves as aliens; and in the thirteenth instruction which they requested, they assume that both the female plaintiff and her mother were aliens to the republic of Texas, and that the former is still an alien to the United States. It is evident,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Campbell
The defendants (Saviego and wife) claimed, in the district court, two and .one half leagues of land lying in the counties of Goliad and Refugio, in Texas, as an inheritance of Madame Saviego, from her mother, Gertrudis Barrera, who died in Matamoros, in Mexico, in 1842.
Gertrudis Barrera acquired, in 1834, one league of the locus' in quo by donation, and the remainder by purchase under the colonization laws of the State of Coahuila and Texas, while it formed a part of the republic of Mexico. She occupied and improved the land until the commencement of the revolutionary movements in Texas, in…
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