United States v. Conway
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This was a petition filed by Maria de la Paz Yaldez de Conway and twenty-one others in the Court of Private Land Claims for the confirmation of a tract of land known as the Cuyamungue grant, or private land claim, situated in the county of Santa Fé, Territory of New Mexico, and alleged to contain in excess of five thousand acres.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This was a petition filed by Maria de la Paz Yaldez de Conway and twenty-one others in the Court of Private Land Claims for the confirmation of a tract of land known as the Cuyamungue grant, or private land claim, situated in the county of Santa Fé, Territory of New Mexico, and alleged to contain in excess of five thousand acres. It appears from an examination of the expediente, offered in evidence as the basis of the claim, that on January 22,1731, Bernardino de Sena, Tomas de Sena and Luis Lopez presented a petition to Governor Juan Domingo…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case involves the proper disposition by the Court of Private Land Claims, under the act of Congress constituting the court, of overlapping grants. The facts are extremely simple: Petitioners derived their title by purchase or inheritance from the original grantees, who held under a royal grant made in 1731 by the then governor of New Mexico, and through which they had been in possession of portions of the land ever since. Their grant had been examined, surveyed and approved by the surveyor general of the United States in 1871, but had never been confirmed by Congress. It was not true, as…
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