Rodriguez

OPINION OF THE COURT. When the first official survey of the land confirmed in this case was before the court (Case No. 16,-181), it was excepted to on the part of the representatives of Simeon Castro, the grantee of the adjoining rancho on the south, because the southern boundary of the survey was fixed at the Arroyo de Frijoles instead of the Arroyo Butano. It appeared that the rancho of Gonzales, lying immediately north of the rancho of the claimants, was clearly bounded on the south by the Butano. If, then, the same creek should be taken to be the northern boundary of the Castro rancho, the effect would be to leave no land whatever between the two ranchos to satisfy the grant to the claimants of the Rodriguez or Butano rancho. After fully examining the diseños and grants in three cases, it was decided by the court that the northern boundary of the Castro grant, and, consequently, the southern boundary of the Rodriguez, was the Arroyo de Frijoles. It was also considered that the Arroyo del Butano was the southern -boundary of the Gonzales tract; and, as the claim of the latter had been confirmed to a tract one league in length by three-fourths of a league in breadth, he was,…