Camou v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. On December 3, 1891, tbe appellant filed in the Court of Private Land Claims his petition praying to have confirmed to him a certain tract of land situate in the county of Cochise, in the Territory of Arizona, known and designated as the San Rafael del Yalle grant. Subsequent proceedings resulted in a trial a.nd a decree in behalf of the government, dismissing the petition and adjudging petitioner’s claim and title invalid.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. On December 3, 1891, tbe appellant filed in the Court of Private Land Claims his petition praying to have confirmed to him a certain tract of land situate in the county of Cochise, in the Territory of Arizona, known and designated as the San Rafael del Yalle grant. Subsequent proceedings resulted in a trial a.nd a decree in behalf of the government, dismissing the petition and adjudging petitioner’s claim and title invalid. The title papers show that on March 12, 1827, Rafael Elias made application to the treasurer general of the state of Sonora…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
This grant was made in the name of the'state of Sonora and by the proper officer of that state, if it had power tó make the grant. The first question, therefore, is as to the power of the state. We held in United States v. Coe, 170 U. S. 681, just decided, that from and after the,adoption of the constitution of 1836 no such power was vested in the separate states. But that case called for no determination of the authority those states possessed prior thereto, and in respect to that matter no opinion was expressed. We have in this case, and that immediately following, Perrin v. United States,…
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