Hardy v. Harbin
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of California
[This was a bill in equity by Alexander Hardy, Thomas Botham, and Ellen Hardy Botham against James M. Harbin, George Taylor, J. C. Parrish, and others. See Case No. 6,060.]
1Opinion of the Court
HOFFMAN, District Judge.
The complainants in this case are the children of one John Hardy, a native of Canada, who, it is alleged, left that country in 1832, and after various wanderings arrived in California, where, having become a Mexican citizen, and assumed the name of Thomas M. Hardy, he obtained from Governor Micheltorena a grant of the premises in controversy. This grant is dated October 23d, 1843.
In October, 1848, Hardy died, leaving no heirs or relatives residing in this state. One Stephen Cooper, to whose house Hardy’s body had been carried from the rancho at which he had died, and…
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