Adams v. Norris
Supreme Court of the United States
This ease was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the Uoited States for the districts of California. It was an ejectment brought by Adams and Grimes, citizens of Massachusetts, against De Cook and Norris, to recover, a rancho in California. The amended complaint- reduced the parties to Adams, plaintiff, against Norris,'defendant. Adams claimed, as representing the heirs at law of one Eliab Gi’imes, and Norris under a codicil to the will of Grimes.
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This ease was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the Uoited States for the districts of California. It was an ejectment brought by Adams and Grimes, citizens of Massachusetts, against De Cook and Norris, to recover, a rancho in California. The amended complaint- reduced the parties to Adams, plaintiff, against Norris,'defendant. Adams claimed, as representing the heirs at law of one Eliab Gi’imes, and Norris under a codicil to the will of Grimes. The question therefore was, whether the will should stand; Grimes, who was a Mexican citizen by naturalization, made a codicil to…
1Opinion of the Court
Mx. Justice CAMPBELL
delivered the opinion of the court.'
The plaintiff claimed, as the assignee of heirs at law of Eliab Grimes, deceased, the title and possession of an undivided seven-eighths of a pax-cel of land in Sacramento count}7, known as the rancho del Paso, containing ten squai’e leagues, being the land granted to Eliab Grimes by Micheltorena, Governor of California, the 20th December, 1844. The défendant resisted the claim, as the assignee of Hiram Grimes, who is a devisee of the land by a codicil to the last will of Eliab Grimes, which is in the Spanish language, aud of which the…
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