Preteca v. Maxwell Land Grant Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado, sitting at Denver. Bill, in equity by the Maxwell Land Grant Company against Vicente Preteca and others to quiet title and restrain trespasses. There was a decree for complainant, pursuant to a stipulation filed, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Caldwell, Circuit Judge.
The complainant filed its bill in equity in .the court below, alleging that it was the legal owner of the lands described in the bill known as the “ Beaubien and Miranda Grant; ” that complainant’s “ title to the said lands has been established at law by divers actions of. ejectment,- duly and regularly brought and prosecuted to judgment in the courts of the territory of New Mexico, by and on behalf of your orator and those through whom it derives its title, against persons in like situation with said defendants, which said actions at law involved and depended on the…
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