Pacheco

The survey in this case is objected to on behalf of certain parties claiming an interest in the southwest corner of the rancho by deed from the original grantee. A portion of the land conveyed to them has not been included in the survey. In the grant the land is described as included between the Arroyo de las Nueces and the Sierra de las Golgones, bounded by the said places and by the ranchos of Las Juntas, San Ramon, and Monte del Diabolo. The fourth condition describes it as “two square leagues’’ (decided by the supreme court to have been erroneously substituted for four square leagues), “a little more or less, as shown by the map, which goes with the expediente.” The diseño very distinctly represents a tract of land bounded on the west and east by the Arroyo de las Nueces and the Sierra da Golgones respectively on the north, by a line drawn from the creek to the sierra, and is described “Linea Divisoria;” and on the south by a chain of hills inscribed “Sierra Divisoria.” There cannot be any doubt that this sierra was intended as the southern boundary of the tract. It is identified by the witnesses as a well-defined ridge or watershed, running from a couple of hills or ami-tos.…