United States Circuit Court August 4, 1886 (Norris v. Haggin)

Sawyer, J.

It is alleged in the bill that the complainant, in the year 1859, and thenceforth, till the title was divested in the years 1860, 1861, 1862, and 1863, in the manner set out, was the owner of several tracts of land in Sacramento city and county, including the Baneho del Paso, containing 45,000 acres, situate on the right bank of the American river, opposite the- city of Sacramento, all