Rancho Bolsa de Tomales
Rancho Bolsa de Tomales was a
US Supreme Court
.
History
Juan Nepomuceno Padilla (1824–) came from Mexico to California. Padilla was elected as the
Rancho Olompali
, and a group of Americans set fire to Padilla’s Sonoma ranch.
In 1848, after he returned from Los Angeles, Padilla, who long had been blamed for the murders in Santa Rosa, was attacked by a group of former Bear Flaggers in a Sonoma hotel.[5] In 1849, Padilla sold Rancho Bolsa de Tomales to Felix Berreyesa and Jesus Molina. In 1850 Padilla sold Rancho Roblar de la Miseria, and returned to Los Angeles. Juan Nepomuceno Padilla married Maria Marta Avila (1825–) in 1851.[6]
With the
Public Land Commission in 1852.[7][8] The grant was confirmed by Land Commission and by the District Court, but reversed by the US Supreme Court on the basis of doubtful character of the claim and sent back to the District Court for re-examination.[9] The District Court again confirmed the grant, a group of squatters who had been living on the ranch appealed the decision and the case went back to US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court found "the production of a fraudulent and false certificate of approval signed by the governor and secretary who signed the grant and proved by the same witnesses in the same way that the grant was proved, affords (in the absence of explanatory evidence,) strong ground for believing all the title papers to be fabricated", and the claim was rejected.[10][11]
References
- ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
- ^ Diseño del Rancho Bolsa de Tomales
- ^ Original Mexican Land Grants in Marin County Archived 2003-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Marin County Ranchos Archived 2008-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-0-520-21958-8
- ^ Roger Rehm, 1996, Juan N. Padilla and Ranchos Roblar de la Miseria and Bolsa de Tomales
- ^ United States. District Court (California : Northern District) Land Case 121 ND
- ^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
- ^ United States v. Galbraith, 1859, U.S. Supreme Court, 63 U.S. 22 How. 89
- ^ United States v. Galbraith, 1862, U.S. Supreme Court, 67 U.S. 394
- ^ People v Shearer, 1866, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Vol 30, pp.645-661, B_W
