Peralta v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the decree of tbe District Court for Northern California on a claim presented in 1853, by Maria de Valencia, for herself and others, heirs of Teodora Peralta, for a piece of land in California on which they were living; the claim being founded on a grant alleged by them to have been made in the spring of 1846 to the said Teodora by • Governor Pio Pico.
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Appeal from the decree of tbe District Court for Northern California on a claim presented in 1853, by Maria de Valencia, for herself and others, heirs of Teodora Peralta, for a piece of land in California on which they were living; the claim being founded on a grant alleged by them to have been made in the spring of 1846 to the said Teodora by • Governor Pio Pico. The case had come of course to the District Court on an appeal from the Board of Land Commissioners established by the act of^March 3,1851, to settle private land claims in California. The expediente which was produced by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
This claim cannot be sustained, according to the rules of evidence which this court has established to determine the validity of Mexican titles in California. "We are asked to relax the severity of those rules in this case, because it is alleged to be meritorious. Courts administer justice by fixed rules, which experience and wisdom have demonstrated are necessary in the investigation of truth. There will sometimes, in applying those rules to the various affairs of life, be cases of individual hardship; but this does not prove that the rules are unwise, or not the best that can be adopted for…
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