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UNITED STATES v. READING

59 U.S. 1 (1855)

18 How. 1

THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS, v. PEARSON B. READING.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Cushing, (attorney-general,) for the United States, and by Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Bibb, for the appellee. There was also a brief filed upon the side of the appellee, by Mr. Volney E. Howard.

Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

We find in the record of this appeal, that Reading, the appellee, was an immigrant from the United States, in the then Mexican territory of California, in the year 1842, and that he afterwards became a citizen of the Mexican republic. After residing there for two years, he petitioned the governor, Michel Torena, for a grant of land called Buena Ventura, situated on the bank...

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