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SAN FRANCISCO v. SCOTT

111 U.S. 768 (1884)

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO & Another v. SCOTT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 5th, 1884.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William Craig, Mr. Harry I. Thornton, and Mr. J.H. Meredith for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Sidney V. Smith Jr. for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

There is no federal question in this case. The right of San Francisco under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the lands in dispute as pueblo lands is not denied. Precisely what that right was may not be easy to state. Mr. Justice Field, speaking for the court, said, in Townsend v. Greely, 5 Wall. 336, "It was not an indefeasible estate; ownership of the lands in the pueblos could not in strictness...

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