UNITED STATES v. PICO ET AL.


64 U.S. 321 (____)

23 How. 321

THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS, v. FRANCISCO PICO AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Stanton for the United States, and by Mr. Gillet for the appellee, upon a brief filed by himself, and adopting also a printed argument by Messrs. Stanly and King.


Mr. Justice CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee, a Mexican by birth, obtained a decree of confirmation in the District Court for a parcel of land, known as Las Calaveras, containing eight square leagues, and situated in Tuolumne county, in California.

His testimony is an expediente, existing in the archives, in the custody of the surveyor general, from which it appears that the claimant presented...

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