United States v. Elder
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. The alleged Mexican grant which forms the subject of this .controversy relates to a tract of land situate in the county of Taos, New Mexico, embraced in wbat is designated as the Cebolla grant.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. The alleged Mexican grant which forms the subject of this .controversy relates to a tract of land situate in the county of Taos, New Mexico, embraced in wbat is designated as the Cebolla grant. The asserted grant was presented in 1872 for confirmation to the surveyor general of New Mexico, under the act of July 2, 1854, by John T. Graham and William Black-more, who averred that they possessed a perfect title to the land covered by the grant, by reason of mesne conveyances from the original grantees. This claim so presented was favorably reported…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
It is contended that the court below erred in confirming the alleged grant—
1. Because the documents relied upon, assuming them to be genuine, do not show that a grant was made, for the reason that on their face they do not purport to be a grant by the governor of New Mexico;
2. Even if the papers can, on their face, be construed as importing a grant by the governor, the claimants were not entitled to confirmation, because there was no archive evidence of the alleged grant and no inscription of the same in the records of the former government;
3. That the governor of New Mexico was without…
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