Boyreau v. Campbell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of California
At law. This was an action of ejectment [by Clement Boyreau against Robert Campbell and others], and, a jury having been waived by the parties, was submitted to the court on the law and facts, with a reservation to the parties of the right to except to the rulings of the court in relation to the admission of testimony, as well as to thé decisions made upon the law of the ease on its merits.
1Opinion of the Court
McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.
The grant under which by mesne conveyances plaintiff claimed, was alleged to have been lost; and plaintiff called Juan B. Alvarado, who was governor at the time the grant was issued, and who testified that the expediente in an application for land, consists of the petition of the applicant, the orders for information, the decree of concession, and a draft of the title-paper issued to the party. These documents are collected together and preserved in the archives, constituting what is termed the ex-pediente. He further stated, that it depended entirely on the…
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