United States v. Bassett
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal -from the District Court of the United States for the northern district of California. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The case, like the preceding one of Nye, depended upon the validity of Sutter.’s general title, and the same-points are applicable to both.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Campbell
The appellee submitted to the board of-commissioners appointed under the act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1851, (9 Stat. at L., 632, ch. 41,) to settle private land claims in California, a claim for four square leagues of land in the valley of the Sacramento river, called “Las Colussas,” as the assignee of John Danbenbiss. His evidence consists of a petition of Danbenbiss to Micheltorena, Governor of California, dated in July, 1844, in which he describes himself as a native of Germany, but naturalized in Mexico, where he had resided two years, and that he desired a grant of this land to…
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