Reynolds

By the Court,

On the 9th daj of April, 1845, one Rosalia Haro presented a petition to Juan jNf. Padilla, the Alcalde of the Jurisdiction of San Francisco, in the following words, according to the translation in the record

The above petition was not signed. Immediately following it was a grant by Juan FT. Padilla in these words :—

At the time the above grant ivas made, Rosalia Haro was a married woman, and she and her husband, A. A. Andrews, were living on another lot. Andrews and his wife had two other lots at the time this grant was made, but whether they were lots granted to them by the public authorities, or lots *325 which they had acquired by purchase from private individuals, does not appear. Rosalia Haro had a small house built on the lot granted to her, and a fence made around it, and she cultivated it as a garden; and Andrews caused a well to be dug about the middle of it. Andrews testifies that his houses and fences were burnt down during the war.

Juan if. Padilla, the Alcalde who made the grant, was examined as a witness on the part of the plaintiff*, and testified that the grant was made at the time it purports to have been made—that it was genuine and made in good…