Mr. Justice DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court.
The haste and recklessness, to use no harsher term, with which this grant was made, cannot but suggest grave doubts of the bonâ fides of the transaction. It nowhere appears that Roland had any claim on the bounty of the Mexican nation, or ability, or intention to occupy so large a tract of country; and yet Pico, near the time when power passed from his hands, in the midst of civil commotion, disregarding...
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