Whitney v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This was a petition by Joel Parker Whitney and others filed in the Court of Private Land Claims for the confirmation of what is commonly known and called the “ Cañada de Cochiti grant,” containing over 100,000 acres, and situated on the Rio Grande River, in the county of Bernalillo, Territory of New Mexico.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This was a petition by Joel Parker Whitney and others filed in the Court of Private Land Claims for the confirmation of what is commonly known and called the “ Cañada de Cochiti grant,” containing over 100,000 acres, and situated on the Rio Grande River, in the county of Bernalillo, Territory of New Mexico. On the day following, Manuel Hurtado and José Antonio Gallegos filed a suit against the United States for the confirmation of the same land, claiming under the same title. It appearing to the court that these two suits were for the same…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Some difficulty in this case arises from the mutilated and fragmentary condition of the original petition in Spanish, and the grant of the land prayed for, purporting to be of the same, date, and supposed to have been made by Bustamente, Governor and Captain General of New Mexico. The original petition as it now appears, reads as follows, .the stars indicating the illegible portions:
“ Antto. Lusero * * querque ante * * resco por aqu * * que el derech * * por quanto * * familia y no * * ante Y. SSa. * * so de tierra * * en la Mesa de Cochiti donde estubieron retirados los indios que se…
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