Devine v. Los Angeles
Supreme Court of the United States
APpEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. Complainants below, appellants here, are 244 in number and own in severalty various tracts of land aggregating several thousand acres, located in the county of Los Angeles, California, in Ranchos San Rafael, Los Felis, and Providencia. The Rancho San Rafael was granted by the King of Spain and the other, two ranchos by the Republic of Mexico to the predecessors of complainants.
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APpEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. Complainants below, appellants here, are 244 in number and own in severalty various tracts of land aggregating several thousand acres, located in the county of Los Angeles, California, in Ranchos San Rafael, Los Felis, and Providencia. The Rancho San Rafael was granted by the King of Spain and the other, two ranchos by the Republic of Mexico to the predecessors of complainants. The titles were confirmed, pursuant to the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, to the successors of the original grantees by the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
' There being no diversity of .citizenship, the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court could, only be maintained upon the ground that the suit arose under the Constitution or laws or, treaties of the United States, and. a suit does not so arise unless it really and substantially involves a dispute or controversy as to the effect or construction of the Constitution or some law or treaty of the United States, upon the determination of which ■ the result depends. And this must appear from the plaintiff’s statement of his own claim, and cannot be aided by allegations as to the defenses which might be…
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