Majors v. Cowell
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twentieth Judicial District, County of Santa Cruz. On the fourth day of February, 1860, a patent was issued by the United States to Juan Bolcoff and Francisco Bolcoff, for a Mexican grant, called the Befugio Bancho, lying in Santa Cruz county.
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Appeal from the District Court, Twentieth Judicial District, County of Santa Cruz. On the fourth day of February, 1860, a patent was issued by the United States to Juan Bolcoff and Francisco Bolcoff, for a Mexican grant, called the Befugio Bancho, lying in Santa Cruz county. The patent was based on a grant made by the Mexican government to Jose Bolcoff, the father of said Juan and Francisco, in the year 1840. The two sons presented the grant to the United States Land Commissioners, and it was, by the Commissioners, and by the United States District Court, confirmed to them as the successors…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Crockett, J.:
The questions presented by this record are: first, Whether the statute of this State regulating the filing of a notice of lis pendens and defining the effect thereof, was intended to apply to actions pending in the Circuit Court of the United States. Second, Whether the statute has been adopted as a rule of practice in equity cases, by the rules prescribed by the Supreme Court of the United States, or by the rules of the Circuit Court for the Mnth Circuit. Third, Whether Cowell, at the time of the conveyance to him, was affected with constructive notice of the…
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