Romero v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California; the case being thus: On the 28th February, 1853, three brothers, Innocencio, José, and Mariano Romero, presented their petition to the Board of Commissioners, established by the act of Congress of March 3d, 1851, for the settlement of private land claims in California, asking a confirmation of a land title.
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This was an appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California; the case being thus: On the 28th February, 1853, three brothers, Innocencio, José, and Mariano Romero, presented their petition to the Board of Commissioners, established by the act of Congress of March 3d, 1851, for the settlement of private land claims in California, asking a confirmation of a land title. Their petition averred that Governor Micheltorena, in the year 1844 (no day being mentioned), granted them in full property a rancho in the neighborhood of the rancho of the Señors Moraga, Pacheco, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This was a petition for the confirmation of a land claim, under the act of the 3d of March,. 1851.
Appellants presented their petition to the commissioners appointed under that act on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1853, claiming title to a certain rancho, situated in Contra Costa County, in that State, and also to certain .unoccupied lands adjacent to the same, describing the tract as a sobrante, or overplus beyond what belonged to the neighboring rancheros.
Copies of some of the supposed title-papers were filed at the same time with the petition, and the petitioners stated in the petition…
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