San Francisco City and County v. Le Roy
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. This was a suit in equity against the city and county of •San Francisco, a municipal corporation of California, to quiet the title of the plaintiffs below, the defendants in error here, to certain real property within the limits of that municipality, against the alleged claim of the corporation to an adverse estate therein. The plaintiffs were citizens of France.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. This was a suit in equity against the city and county of •San Francisco, a municipal corporation of California, to quiet the title of the plaintiffs below, the defendants in error here, to certain real property within the limits of that municipality, against the alleged claim of the corporation to an adverse estate therein. The plaintiffs were citizens of France. The defendant, as a corporation of California, must be treated, for purposes of jurisdiction, as a citizen of that State. The bill alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
It was conceded in the court below that the premises, to remove the cloud from which the present bill is filed, were at the time “ pueblo lands ” of San Francisco; that is, that they were part of the lands claimed by the city as successor of a Mexican pueblo of that name; that they are within the limits of the city of San Francisco as prescribed by the charter of 1851, and are within the four square leagues described in the decree of the United States Circuit Court for the District of California, entered May 18, 1865, by which the claim of the city as such successor was confirmed and its…
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- Grisar v. McDowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
- Townsend v. GreeleySupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Trenouth v. San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Palmer v. LowSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
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