Case No. 15,261.

UNITED STATES v. GREER et al.

[Hoff. Land Cas. 72.]¹

District Court, N. D. California.

Dec. Term, 1855.

MEXICAN LAND GRANT—GENUINENESS OF GRANT—JUDICIAL POSSESSION.

No objections urged to the confirmation of this claim.

Claim for about three leagues of land in San Mateo county, confirmed by the board, and appealed by the United States.

[This was a claim by Maria Louisa Greer and others for the Canada de Raymundo, two and a half by three-quarter leagues. Granted August 3, 1840, by Juan B. Alvarado to John Coppinger. Claim filed February 3, 1852. Confirmed by the commission, November 29, 1853. Now heard upon appeal by the United States.]

S. W. Inge, U. S. Atty.

Jeremiah Clarke, for appellees

HOFFMAN, District Judge. No argument was submitted on behalf of the appellants, nor was any objection suggested to the validity of this claim. The transcript has been submitted to the court without any observations from either side. On examining the decree of the commissioners, it appears to be sustained by the evidence. No doubt exists as to the genuineness of the grant or the performance of the conditions. The only objections which can be urged against the claim are the want of a judicial possession, and the fact that the land is within the ten littoral leagues. These objections have heretofore been considered and overruled. There seems, therefore, to be no ground for reversing the decree of the board. The claim must therefore be confirmed.

¹ [Reported by Numa Hubert, Esq., and here reprinted by permission.]

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