People ex rel. Attorney-General v. Folsom

Heydenfeldt, J., concurred.

This case has excited more public attention than any that, has heretofore been presented to this Court, both on account of the amount and the principles involved.

Its discussion has evinced a research and ability highly complimentary to the counsel engaged, without which it would have been almost impossible to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion.

The case stands thus: On the 18th of May 1848, Leidesdorff, a naturalized citizen of Mexico, died seized of the property in dispute, and that Anna Maria Sparks, his mother and heir, through whom defendant’s claim, was not at…