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HORNSBY v. UNITED STATES

77 U.S. 224 (1869)

10 Wall. 224

HORNSBY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. M. Blair and F.A. Dick, for the appellants.

Mr. Wills, contra.

Mr. Justice FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

As we have had occasion to observe in several instances,* grants of the public domain of Mexico, made by governors of the department of California, were of three kinds: 1st, grants by specific boundaries, where the donee was entitled to the entire tract described; 2d, grants by quantity, as of one or more leagues situated at some designated place, or within a larger tract described...

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