Norton v. Meader
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
This is a suit on the equity side of the court to charge tlie defendants [Moses A. Meader and others] as trustees of certain real property, situated in the county of Santa Cruz, and to compel a transfer of the legal title held by them to the complainant [Charles E. Norton]. It was heard on the pleadings and proofs in September, 1866, but was decided at tlie subsequent October term.
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This is a suit on the equity side of the court to charge tlie defendants [Moses A. Meader and others] as trustees of certain real property, situated in the county of Santa Cruz, and to compel a transfer of the legal title held by them to the complainant [Charles E. Norton]. It was heard on the pleadings and proofs in September, 1866, but was decided at tlie subsequent October term. As thus presented, tlie case was substantially this: On the thirteenth of February, 1839. three sisters, Maria Candida, Maria Jacinta, and Maria de los Angeles Castro, presented a petition to Alvarado, then…
1Opinion of the Court
FIELD,! Circuit Justice.
There is no doubt in our minds that a formal grant — a titulo— was issued to the sisters. The decree of concession entered on the eighth of April. 1839, directs the issue of such a document, and no reason is alleged why the direction should not then have been carried out. The entry in the prefect’s registry must have been made from such a document. The decree itself remained, and always has remained, in the archives of the government The issue of a certified copy, as inaccurately averred upon information and belief, would have been an unusual proceeding, and no ground…
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