Page v. Hobbs
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Seventh Judicial District, Solano County. Vallejo claimed the Suscol Rancho under a grant -from the Mexican Nation. The Supreme Court of the United States rejected the grant in 1862. The plaintiff had purchased from Vallejo the land in dispute, which was a portion of the so-called Suscol Rancho, a longtime prior .to the rejection of the grant, and had entered into possession and inclosed the same.
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Appeal from the District Court, Seventh Judicial District, Solano County. Vallejo claimed the Suscol Rancho under a grant -from the Mexican Nation. The Supreme Court of the United States rejected the grant in 1862. The plaintiff had purchased from Vallejo the land in dispute, which was a portion of the so-called Suscol Rancho, a longtime prior .to the rejection of the grant, and had entered into possession and inclosed the same. In 1862, after the rejection of the grant, defendants entered, claiming the right each to pre-empt one hundred and sixty acres as public land. Plaintiff commenced…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Sawyer, J.
This action was commenced on the 26th day of November, 1862, to recover a portion of the tract of land known as the “ Suscol Rancho.” The plaintiff was one of the purchasers under the grant to Vallejo. He had occupied for a series of *485years, claiming title under said grant. Soon after the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, rejecting the Vallejo grant in 1862, numerous parties, regardless of the inclosures or possession of those who had for years occupied under conveyances from Vallejo, entered upon various tracts of the land covered by the rejected…
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