Hoadley's Administrators v. San Francisco
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE' THE STATE OE CALIFORNIA. This suit was brought by Milo Hoadley to quiet his title to certain lands in the city of San Francisco: The material facts were these: - Prior to 1848 there existed at the place now occupied by the city of San Francisco a town or pueblo, which was organized under the Mexican government, and which claimed title to four square leagues of land, including the premises in controversy.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE' THE STATE OE CALIFORNIA. This suit was brought by Milo Hoadley to quiet his title to certain lands in the city of San Francisco: The material facts were these: - Prior to 1848 there existed at the place now occupied by the city of San Francisco a town or pueblo, which was organized under the Mexican government, and which claimed title to four square leagues of land, including the premises in controversy. The present city'of SanFranciscp is the legal successor of this town or pueblo. In the spring of 1850 Hoadley entered into the possession of a part of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice 'Waite,
after stating the case, delivered, the opinion of the court.
This case was before us at October term, 1876, upon an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the United States remanding it to the state court from which it had been removed under the act of March 3, 1875, 18 Stat. 470, c. 137. We then said that “ the questions involved did not arise under the laws of the United States, but under the ordinances of the city as ratified by the act of the legislature. The act of Congress operated as a release to the city of all the interests of the United States in the…
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