MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit to charge the defendants as trustees of certain land in the city of San Francisco, and to compel a conveyance of the legal title to the plaintiff. The case is free from difficulty, but to understand the positions of the plaintiff it will be necessary to state briefly the history of the titles to lands in that city.
At the time of the conquest of California by the forces of the United States...
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