Hays v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This was a suit "instituted by the appellant in the Court of • Private Land Claims for the confirmation of a grant of land situate in the county of San Miguel, New Mexico, known as tbe “Apache Springs,” or “Ojo del Apache” grant, and alleged to contain eleven square leagues, or 47,743 square acres.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This was a suit "instituted by the appellant in the Court of • Private Land Claims for the confirmation of a grant of land situate in the county of San Miguel, New Mexico, known as tbe “Apache Springs,” or “Ojo del Apache” grant, and alleged to contain eleven square leagues, or 47,743 square acres. The amended petition alleged, substantially, that prior to June 2, 1842, Manuel Armijo, then governor of New Mexico, granted the tract in question to Yenturo Trujillo, in accordance with his petition for the same, and by decree directed the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The only documentary evidence of title which appears in the record is the following translation of a grant purporting to have been signed by Damasio Salazar, described therein as a justice of the peace. In the original Spanish he is described as Jues de pas (paz) and subsequently as “ alcalde ”:
“ Translation.
Seal fourth. (Seal.) One fourth real.
For the years eighteen hundred and forty and eighteen hundred and forty-one.
“In this second demarcation San Miguel de Bado, on the second day of the month of July of the present year eighteen hundred and forty-two, before me citizen Damasio Salazar,…
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