United States v. Throckmorton
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
In this case a bill in chancery is brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California, to use the language of the bill itself, “by Walter "Van Dyke, United States attorney for that district, on behalf of the United States,” against Throckmorton, Howard, Goold, and Haggin.
The object of the bill is to have a decree of the court, setting aside and declaring to be null and void a confirmation of the claim of W. A. Richardson under a Mexican grant, to certain lands, made by the board of commissioners of private land-claims in California on the twenty-seventh day of…
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