HAYS v. UNITED STATES

No. 19.

175 U.S. 248 (1899)

HAYS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1899.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.B. Catron for appellant.

Mr. William H. Pope for appellee. Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Matthew G. Reynolds were on his brief.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the above statement of the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The only documentary evidence of title which appears in the record is the following translation of a grant purporting to have been signed by Damasio Salazar, described therein as a justice of the peace. In the original Spanish he is described as Jues de pas (paz) and subsequently as "alcalde:"

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