Durfee v. Plaisted
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Seventh District, County of Solano. The action was for the recovery of a lot of ground in the City of Vallejo, and within the limits of the Suscol rancho. The plaintiff'claimed title through several mesne conveyances, under the Act of Congress of March 3d, 1863 (12 U. S. Stats. 808) “granting the right of pre-emption, etc., to the purchasers of the Suscol rancho,” and a patent issued in conformity therewith.
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Appeal from the District Court, Seventh District, County of Solano. The action was for the recovery of a lot of ground in the City of Vallejo, and within the limits of the Suscol rancho. The plaintiff'claimed title through several mesne conveyances, under the Act of Congress of March 3d, 1863 (12 U. S. Stats. 808) “granting the right of pre-emption, etc., to the purchasers of the Suscol rancho,” and a patent issued in conformity therewith. On the trial, the plaintiff offered in evidence the patent of the United States to the parties under whom he claimed. To which defendant objected, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtRhodes, J.
The plaintiff claims title to the premises under a patent issued by the United States to Frisbie and others, by virtue of the Act of Congress of March 3, 1863, granting the right of pre-emption, etc., to the purchasers of the Suscol rancho. (12 U. S. Stats. 808.) The Act provides that, after the public surveys have been extended over .the rancho, the bona fide purchasers from M. G. Vallejo, or his assigns, may enter the lands which they had purchased and reduced to possession, when the claim of Vallejo to the rancho was rejected by the Supreme Court of the United States; that joint entries…
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