Bustamante v. Haynes

The case involves distinct land titles running back through the last hundred years to two grants originally issued by the government of the republic of Mexico to Antonio Zapata and Pedro Bustamante, respectively. The grants lie contiguously in Zapata county, and are known as the Villa and Las Confit-as, respectively. Each embraces five leagues of land, but this suit directly concerns only 20,000 acres thereof, approximately, lying together under one fence.

Appellees claim and recovered a segregated two-fifths interest in the Confitas, amounting to 7,076.5 acres, and 12,252.37 acres in the…