Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

48 Cal. 339

Cassidy v. Carr

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1874

California Supreme Court · decided 1874-07-01

August 5, 1834, Josepha Vallejo petitioned Governor Figueroa for a grant of a rancho called “ Chualar,” within the boundaries of the present county of Monterey. Accompanying the petition was a diseño, and a reference was made to the ayuntamiento of Monterey. A favorable import was made; the priests of the Mission of San Carlos consented to the grant.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1874-07-01

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1982

3 state decisions

20187418801890190019101920193019401950196019701980decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

By the Court, McKinstry, J.:

¶1The plaintiff seeks to recover as assignee of a claim derived from the Mexican government. The claim was confirmed by the Land Commissioners and by the District Court; and the appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States was afterward dismissed. The survey of the Surveyor-General was returned to the District Court, and the claimant, having filed his exceptions to it, and the same having been argued, the survey as returned was approved by that Court and made final. By the approved survey the lands—the possession of which is sought to be recovered in this action, and which were included within the juridical measurement of the Mexican authorities—were excluded.

¶2It may be assumed, as is asserted by plaintiff, that the expediente shows a “perfect title.” Tet the claimant, who submitted his claim for confirmation or rejection, and to proceedings the object of which was to segregate lands granted by Mexico from the public domain of the United States, could not, nor can his grantee now be heard to assert title to any lands not included in the final survey.

¶3Order affirmed.

/48/cal/339 · .json · Public domain