Rogers v. Ritter
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of California; the case being this: Rogers brought ejectment against Ritter in the court below to recover a lot of land in San Francisco, known by the name .of Yerba Buena.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of California; the case being this: Rogers brought ejectment against Ritter in the court below to recover a lot of land in San Francisco, known by the name .of Yerba Buena. The plaintiff having given in evidence various deeds, and rested, the defendants offered a writing, dated Yerba Buena, December 5th, 1845, purporting to bo a petition by one Briones for the grant of the lot, under which was written an instrument dated Deeember7tb, 1845, purporting to be a grant of the lotvby “the citizen José de la Cruz Sanchez, justice of the peace of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
The objection to the grant, which, supposing it genuine, is insisted on in the first place, in this court, by the counsel of the plaintiff in error, presents a question which in the state of the record this court is not called upon to decide; for it does not appear that the objection was taken in the court below. It is true, that the grant was attacked there, but on an entirely different ground. The main controversy concerning it was, whether or not it was genuine. Its validity, if genuine, does not seem to have been questioned. We are not., therefore, required to travel through the various…
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