Owen v. Presidio Mining Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
'Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. This is a suit iu equity, brought by the complainant, Ernest Dale Owen, as trustee, a citizen of the state of Illinois, against the Presidio Mining Company, a corporation of the state of California, and against William Noyes, the superintendent of said mining company, a citizen of Texas, and John L. Bullis, a citizen of the territory of Arizona, to recover section 8 in block 8 of the…
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'Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. This is a suit iu equity, brought by the complainant, Ernest Dale Owen, as trustee, a citizen of the state of Illinois, against the Presidio Mining Company, a corporation of the state of California, and against William Noyes, the superintendent of said mining company, a citizen of Texas, and John L. Bullis, a citizen of the territory of Arizona, to recover section 8 in block 8 of the survey of the Houston & Texas Central Hallway Company in Presidio county, Tex., to quiet the title thereof, and to recover…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The first question presented in the consideration of. this case is, did Cesario Herrera, alcalde of Presidio del Norte, make and execute the alleged grant tb Jose Ygnaeio Ronquillo on the 25th day of January, 1832? The burden is on the complainant to establish such a grant. He offers for the purpose n’o original documentary evidence of any kind or description, no record from the alcalde’s office, no- record, memorandum of, or reference to, any such grant, from any of the public archives or other places where such evidence, if the grant was actually made, should be…
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