Hayner v. Stanly

The governor of California in 1836 granted to Nicholas Higuera a tract of land called “Entre Napa.” On November 13, 1847, before the transfer of .California to the United States, said Higuera and wife conveyed to Mateo Fallón a part of said land, described (as translated from the Spanish language, in which the conveyance was written) as “a certain quantity of land lying, being, and situate in the district of Sonoma, and territory of Upper California, in the valley of Napa, containing, more or less, one square mile of land in the place known as the ‘Rincon de los Carneros,’commencing at the…