Romero v. Janss Inv. Corp.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action at law in ejectment in which the appellant, administrator of the estate of Maria Dorotea Alanis de Romero, seeks to establish his right to possession of land situated in the county of Los Angeles, state of California. Appellant’s case rests upon a claimed Mexican title vesting in his intestate as the alleged owner of the one-half community interest of her mother in the land in question.

The title of the appellee, defendant below, rests upon a patent from the United States made to certain persons, Wilson and Sanford, who had…