Hornsby v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the District Court of California. This case was brought by the appellants, Hornsby an,d Noland, for the confirmation of a claim made by them under a Mexican grant for nine square leagues of land, situated in California, under the act of Congress of March 3d, 1851, to ascertain and settle private, land claims in that State.* The grant was issued to Luis Arenas (whose interest had since passed to the claimant Hornsby) and Jose Noland, May 6th, 1846, by Pio Pico,…
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Appeal from the District Court of California. This case was brought by the appellants, Hornsby an,d Noland, for the confirmation of a claim made by them under a Mexican grant for nine square leagues of land, situated in California, under the act of Congress of March 3d, 1851, to ascertain and settle private, land claims in that State.* The grant was issued to Luis Arenas (whose interest had since passed to the claimant Hornsby) and Jose Noland, May 6th, 1846, by Pio Pico, then governor of the Department of California. Some years before the issue of this grant, a grant of two square leagues in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
As we have had occasion to observe in several instances, * grants of the public domain of Mexico, made by governors of the department of California, were of three kinds: 1st, grauts by specific boundaries, where the donee was entitled to the entire tract described; 2d, grants by quantity, as of one or more leagues situated at some designated place, or within a larger'tract-described by out-boundaries, where the donee was entitled out of the general tract only to the quan tity specified; and 3d, grants of places by name, where the donee was entitled to the tract named according to the limits,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. KingsleySupreme Court of the United States · 1838
3Cited by37 opinions
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- State of Texas v. BalliTexas Supreme Court · 1944
- Slidell v. GrandjeanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- More v. SteinbachSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Cameron v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
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