United States v. Workman
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal by the United States from a decree of the District Court for the Southern District, of California, confirming a decision of the Board of Commissioners appointed by the act of March 3,1851, for the settlement of private land claims in the State just named, by which decision an estate known as the ex-mission of San Gabriel was confirmed to Workman arid Crosby, appellees in the case.
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Appeal by the United States from a decree of the District Court for the Southern District, of California, confirming a decision of the Board of Commissioners appointed by the act of March 3,1851, for the settlement of private land claims in the State just named, by which decision an estate known as the ex-mission of San Gabriel was confirmed to Workman arid Crosby, appellees in the case. The petition represented that “ on the 8th day of June, 1846, Pio Pico, then Governor of California, in the name of the Mexican nation, by virtue of authority in him vested by the laws of Mexico, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Appellees, in their petition to the commissioners, represented that Governor Pio Pico, on the eighth day of June, 184.6, gran ted, sold, and conveyed in full property unto the first-named appellee and one Perfecto Hugo Beid, the mission of San Gabriel, with all the appurtenances appertaining to the same, whether they consisted in lands, improvements, or cattle; and they also alleged that the juridical possession was duly given to the grantees of all that property, whether *759buildings, vineyards, orchards, gardens, or land, and that the grantees remained in peaceable and quiet possession of the…
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