Case No. 16,068.

UNITED STATES v. POPE et al.

[Hoff. Land Cas. 141.]¹

District Court, N. D. California.

June Term, 1856.

MEXICAN LAND GRANTS.

The validity of this claim fully established.

[Claim of Joseph Pope and others, heirs of Julian Pope, deceased, for the Rancho Locoallomia, consisting of] two leagues of land in Napa county; confirmed by the board, and appealed by the United States.

William Blanding, U. S. Atty.

McDougal, Aldrich & Sharp, for appellees.

HOFFMAN, District Judge. In September, 1841, Julian Pope applied to General Vallejo for an order for the provisional occupation of the premises now claimed. The land having been reported vacant, permission to occupy and to apply for the usual title was given to the applicant. Julian Pope accordingly petitioned the government for a grant, and on the thirtieth of September, the usual title was issued by Jimeno, giving to Pope the place called Locoallomia, of two sitios de gañado mayor. The above facts are established 593by the grant, which is produced and duly proven, and by the expediente, which is found in the archives, and a copy of which duly certified is on file.

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

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