People v. Shearer
California Supreme Court
This action was commenced in the Supreme Court. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sawyer, J.:
The following facts are alleged in the petition for a man- > date, and they are either expressly admitted, or are not sufficiently denied by the answer to put them in issue. The case is substantially submitted on the facts as stated in the petition.
*646A tract of land containing from twenty to thirty thousand acres, in the County of Marin, known by the name of “ Rancho Bolsa de Tómales,” was claimed, under a Mexican grant to one Padilla, by James D. Galbraith, in whose name a petition for confirmation was duly presented to the Board of Land Commissioners, under the Act of…
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