Vallejo Land Ass'n v. Viera
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Eifteenth Judicial District, County of Contra Costa. Ejectment to recover about one hundred and twenty-six acres of land, part of the so-called Suscol Ranch, in the county of Solano. M. G. Vallejo claimed about eighteen leagues of land, called the Suscol Rancho, under an alleged Mexican grant, but the Supreme Court of the United States, in 1862, rejected the grant, and the land became a part of the public domain.
Read the full summary
Appeal from the District Court, Eifteenth Judicial District, County of Contra Costa. Ejectment to recover about one hundred and twenty-six acres of land, part of the so-called Suscol Ranch, in the county of Solano. M. G. Vallejo claimed about eighteen leagues of land, called the Suscol Rancho, under an alleged Mexican grant, but the Supreme Court of the United States, in 1862, rejected the grant, and the land became a part of the public domain. (See United States v. Vallejo, 1 Black. 541.) Vallejo, before this rejection, had sold the land, or a great portion thereof, to parties who had…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
The action is ejectment, and the premises sued for are a portion of the Suscol Banch. The asserted legal title of the plaintiff originates in a Sheriff’s deed, delivered in 1865 to a purchaser at a judicial sale held upon a decree of foreclosure, regularly entered in an action instituted against the defendant here. The decree was founded upon a mortgage deed executed by the defendant to Frisbie in 1861, to secure a balance of unpaid purchase-money—the defendant, at the time, receiving from the mortgagee a conveyance whereby he obtained the asserted title of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Clark v. BakerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1860
3Cited by9 opinions
- Orr v. StewartCalifornia Supreme Court · 1885
- Rogers v. MillerWashington Supreme Court · 1895
- Barnard v. WilsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
- Trope v. KernsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1890
- Grasswick v. MillerMontana Supreme Court · 1928
4 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.