Bojorques
United States v. Bojorques
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hoffman, J.
This case comes up on objections filed to the survey of the rancho of Laguna, de San Antonio made by the surveyor general. The land granted is described in the petition and grant as of six leagues in extent, and bordering towards the southeast on Juan Martin, towards the northwest on the two rocks (Las Dos Piedras), towards the southwest on Las Tómales, and towards the northeast on Juan Miranda. The diseño, which is drawn with somewhat more than usuál skill, shows that the tract solicited was a right-angled parallelogram, three leagues in length and two leagues in width. *1188 The survey returned into court preserves the form of the tract indicated by the diseño, with the exception of a deflection in the eastern line, which is made to run along the Arroyo de San Antonio, and along the margin ■of the laguna of the same name, so as to correspond with the western boundary of Juan Miranda, as indicated on the diseño of the latter. The survey is objected to on the ground that the southern line is improperly located; that it should be run more to the south or less to the west; and as it is admitted that the tract must be a parallelogram, with all its angles right angles, that it must be…