United States v. Gomez
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal, by the United States, from a decree of the District Court for Southern California, under the act of March 3, 1851, to settle private land claims in California, reversing a decision of the Boai’d of Land Commissioners, and confirming to one Vincente Gomez a claim for a tract or rancho called the Panocho Grande.
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This was an appeal, by the United States, from a decree of the District Court for Southern California, under the act of March 3, 1851, to settle private land claims in California, reversing a decision of the Boai’d of Land Commissioners, and confirming to one Vincente Gomez a claim for a tract or rancho called the Panocho Grande. So far as the title involved in the claim of Gomez was concerned, the case could embrace nothing, of course, but the question, whether title was shown or not; whether the claim was well founded, or the reverse of it ? Ns respected this matter of the claim. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Claim of the appellee, as described in his petition to the land commissioners, was for a tract of land situated in California called Panoche Grande, of the extent of four square leagues, and he alleged that the tract was granted to him, in the year 1844, by Governor Manuel Micheltorena. Unable to exhibit his title-papers, as required by the act of Congress upon the subject, he relied upon parol proof to show their existence, loss, and contents. Commissioners rejected the claim, and the claimant appealed to the District Court, where the claim for the whole tract was confirmed. Final decree, as…
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