Bernal
United States v. Bernal
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hoffman, J.
An opinion having been [filed] in this cause [Case No. 14,580], in which the various questions relative to the surveys and location of the above rancho were discussed and decided, a motion was made by the claimants for a rehearing and modification' of so much of it as required the line across the valley to be run direct from the tree near the Lagunas hill, marked No. 3, to that on the Pueblo hills, marked No. 5. This motion having been granted, the counsel for certain parties, intervening for their interests, have filed a brief in which not only the modification proposed is resisted, but the correctness of those parts of the opinion w'hich were in favor of the claimants is discussed, and the whole subject reargued on its merits. The .decree of the board which was in the same terms as that of this court, adopted the boundaries as described in the record of the judicial possession of the rancho. The description, however, of some df the lines, is derived in part from the testimony of witnesses, the principal of whom are the alcalde who gave the possession, and the assisting witnesses. Of these lines, the most important are the third and fourth. The decree directs that the third line…