State Ex Rel. State Game Commission v. Red River Valley Co.

Motion for Rehearing.

BRICE, Justice.

On consideration of motion for rehearing our conviction as to the correctness of the result reached in the majority opinion is not weakened, but strengthened rather. It is asserted by appellee in its motion for rehearing, that the Pablo Montoya Grant was public domain of the United States from July 4, 1848, the effective date of the Treaty of Guadalupe Plidalgo, 9 Stat. 922, until March 3, 1869, the date of the Act of Congress, 15 Stat. 342, confirming the grant, and probably up to the date of the patent, which was April 20, 1877. Then appellee, assuming…