Dalton v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the southern district of California. The title of Dalton to the land which he claimed is set forth in the opinion of the court.
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the southern district of California. The title of Dalton to the land which he claimed is set forth in the opinion of the court. The board of commissioners confirmed the. title, but the District Court reversed the decree, apparently upon the ground stated in the following exception : Upon the trial of this cause, the United States district attorney offered to prove, by Daniel Sexton and J. S. Mallard, witnesses called on the part of the United States, that Henry Dalton, the appellee in this case, was not, at the time of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
delivered the opinion of.the court.
The title of Dalton is found in the archives, and its áuthenticity is not disputed. The expediente exhibits:
1st. A petition of Henry Dalton, dated March 12th, 1845, at Los Angeles, setting forth that he is a resident of that city; that he is endeavoring to increase the number of cattle on the premises which he possessed, called Azusa, but that he lacked more land for that purpose; that the mission of San Gabriel owned a large plain adjoining his tract of Azusa, which wa?. useless to them. It was accompanied with a diseno or map of the land. The quantity…
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