Meader v. Norton
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of CalL forma. This was a bill in equity, filed in the court below by C. E. Norton, to have the defendants, Meader and several others, declared trustees of certain real property situated in the State of California, and to obtain a decree that they convey to him the legal title held by them to the premises.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of CalL forma. This was a bill in equity, filed in the court below by C. E. Norton, to have the defendants, Meader and several others, declared trustees of certain real property situated in the State of California, and to obtain a decree that they convey to him the legal title held by them to the premises. The case as presented by the record was thus: Three sisters, named respectively Maria Candida, Maria Jacinta, and Maria Los Angeles' Castro, on the 13th of February, 1839, applied by petition to J. B. Alvarado, then Mexican governor of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Claims to lands in California by virtue of any right or title derived from the former government were required to be presented to the land commissioners, and authority was vested in the commissioners to decide upon the validity of such claims and to certify their decisions, with the reasons for the same, to the district attorney for the district.
Applicants for such confirmations were required to present their claims to the commissioners when sitting as a board, but the act of Congress made no provision for notice to any adverse claimant, and the proceedings before the commissioners were…
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