Bergere v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS EROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
These are cross-appeals from a judgment of the Oourt of Private Land Claims, confirming in the petitioner Bergere, for herself and the other heirs of Manuel Antonio Otero and Miguel Antonio Otero, the title to eleven square leagues of land in the Territory of New Mexico. The petition was filed in the court below, asking that the validity of the title to a very much larger tract’of land in the above territory, alleged to have been granted in 1819 to one Bartolomé Baca by acting Governor Melgares, might be confirmed to the heirs and legal representatives of Baca, of whom, she alleged, she was…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- United States v. SandovalSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- United States v. Santa FeSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Ainsa v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Whitney v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
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- Butler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1952
- State v. BrooksSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
- Unemployment Compensation Commission v. City Ice & Coal Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1939
- Montoya v. Unknown Heirs of VigilNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1911
- Grays Harbor Commercial Co. v. McCullochWashington Supreme Court · 1920
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