United States v. Coe
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This suit was originally instituted. February 2, 1S92, by the Algodones Land Company, under provisions of an act entitled “ An act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March 3,1891, c.: 539, 26 Stat. 854. Pending the litigation, the Algodones Land Company conveyed the property to Earl B. Coe, and upon motion the action was…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. This suit was originally instituted. February 2, 1S92, by the Algodones Land Company, under provisions of an act entitled “ An act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March 3,1891, c.: 539, 26 Stat. 854. Pending the litigation, the Algodones Land Company conveyed the property to Earl B. Coe, and upon motion the action was revived in his name. The basis pf the claim is an alleged grant, which shows: That one Fernando Podriguez, on January…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
We shall assume the genuineness of the title papers. It was sc found by all the judges of the court below and, notwithstanding some irregularities in them, we are disposed to concur in the finding. The question which remains is, did the officers who made the grant have the power to do so ?
Section 4 of the act establishing the •' Court of Private Land Claims' provides that the petition of petitioners “ shall set forth fully the nature of their claims to the lands, and particularly state the date and form of the grant, concession, warrant or order of survey under which they claim, by whom made,…
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