United States v. Flint
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of California
The three cases are suits in equity [by the United States against Benjamin Flint and others, S. R. Throckmorton and others, and H. W. Carpentier and others] to vacate the patents issued by the United States upon confirmed Mexican grants, on the ground that said grants are not genuine, and that their confirmation was procured by fraud on the part of the claimants, in presenting fraudulent grants, and concealing the faet3 from the officers of the government.
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The three cases are suits in equity [by the United States against Benjamin Flint and others, S. R. Throckmorton and others, and H. W. Carpentier and others] to vacate the patents issued by the United States upon confirmed Mexican grants, on the ground that said grants are not genuine, and that their confirmation was procured by fraud on the part of the claimants, in presenting fraudulent grants, and concealing the faet3 from the officers of the government. They all present substantially the same questions, and were argued and considered together. The opinion of FIELD. Circuit Justice, applies…
1Opinion of the Court
FIELD, Circuit Justice.
The case of U. S. v. Flint is a suit in equity, the main object of which is to set aside and annul the decree of the district court of the Southern district of California, confirming the claim of Teodocio Yorba to the rancho Lomas de Santiago, situated in the county of Los Angeles, in this state, and to recall and cancel the patent issued thereon by the United States. It is brought by the district attorney for California, and purports to be on behalf of the United States. It appears, from the allegations of the bill, and the-record to which the bill refers, that in…
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