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Show AMV-f-tiujc Nnnmp I.iiudi. W:hiiiL;ti.n, is. 'Iho rm nl supreme su-preme court decision in the c.tto o: French c. Fvan ai.d otiier, fr":u lh' cin tut court m M:-curi. b i a vita b-ariiiR ou C.tiiiuriua intett.-,: --. Ii iio!d- thai ha.iiiio p 1 1 1 1 cant, ol be uiipe.i.-iitd hy aet;.i.n - taw, at.;! overrules the ol") deci-i u; of tlie C:.;-if'jrnia C:.;-if'jrnia supreme court. 1 : e I. in I ii J.-iputo was v. stid iu U-.c p' lint:::' throu.ii purciia-e from Im M"- 'Ui I'acilic railroad compinv. to whom i bail hfr-n crrtirie.1 m nrt u li.e land gr.mt.d to a; I t'.i.i c: i.'.r uc tMll of sal 1 road. 'Io ov-rcim- the pru.t't J'i--,i c i,,', di-f-ialiht intr.j d-jifd t'ne patent i-.-u.d to M.---(ur Under the 04'aillji la 1,1 i' t u( 1 ) anil it w.n silnu'-od II. l is.r. iicwr. i-ant i-ant h.u, a ugu:.ir c!i iui of tit:o mi 1-r this pateot. At lii..s fit the plum Ufl ol! Ti d to prov.' in r-b Ut il, by paiolc pvidetic-, ti.a I tl:' laud w.m in it wamp, uvcrll iwcl and unlit for Oil-liviilion, Oil-liviilion, nnd tiut the greater part t'uereof never had been io inre t'. Tiif court below ruhd that aui' the .lef. n hint inlr'Alucd the l.'nitcil Stat s latent to tne slab- l'r : 1 .ami as MW.tuip land, thn concluded tiie qur-lion, and ruled out too pirole t- -.lunony, and plain till' eirtptrd. The Biipremf court nu-it:iu,s the court helow under its prt vioiis deciiuns th it tiio liwamp land act was a grant hy which tho title to those hind p.i--el ut onco to t!ic itt iti -iu whieh liicy lay, exeej,'. to .il.it'. adinill' d to thu I'nioii aft. r in m ni:;i'. 'iiie court boidn in sii1m:u.c that parolo t. alimony r mhol be re reived to ovrrhjrn I'm dr. i-mn of tin-secretary tin-secretary of the lot- tlur .t drel.m . in the patent, liu. an fdlic. r having b.:en made by law tlie tribuii il wh' decHuui of Much (jui sliouj w.is co;i trolling. Judge Field called nU nlion to a Heri1 of California deei-ioni, taking tak-ing a dilf-T'-nl view from that lield hy tho pupremo rourl in thii cihc. Judge Miller's opinion mi h-half of the HUprenir court ay, in reply, wi'h all refpet for Hint lenrncd court, w-aro w-aro unalilc to concur in thu view, therein npriw.ej. '1 ho priin iplo we have laid down is in harmony with the HVfdem which govern" the relations of tlii! court" to thn ollicern of tho executive department, especially Uhwp. having charge of Hi" public land, as wn liavn repeated!)' deeidid, nnd we mu-t aliiile thein. Tiir court further holds them no conflict bo-tween bo-tween its present ib-ci'iinn and a lor iht rum in th" ca'C of the railroad against Smith. |
