United States v. Stewart

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

In this action the United States seeks to quiet its title to a large area of tule or marsh land claimed to be a part of Mare Island in San Pablo Bay and to have been acquired by purchase from the grantees of Victor Castro, to whom the island was granted by the Mexican Governor Alvarado in 1841. Appellees, defendants below, claim title to the land by mesne conveyances from a patentee of the state of California.

The suit, a companion case to United States v. O’Donnell, 303 U.S. 501, 58 S.Ct. 708, 82 L.Ed. 980, presents the final chapter in a century-old controversy…