Brown v. Brackett
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of California, the action being ejectment for lands in that State, on which judgment was rendered for the defendant in a District Court of the State and affirmed by the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court, as follows:
This is an action for the possession of certain real property situated in the county of Marin, in the State of California. The premises are embraced within the boundaries of a grant made by the former Mexican government to one Earnon Mesa, in March, 1844. Through Mesa the plaintiff derives his interest; and as evideuee of the recognition and confirmation of Mesa’s title, produces a decree of the District Court of the United States for California confirming, under the act of Congress of March 8d, 1851, a claim of one Vasques…
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