Sanchez

The rancho if Las Animas, which was originally granted to Josefa Romero, and to her children, the widow and heirs of Mariano Castro, was confirmed by this court [Case No. 16,218] to various parties claiming as heirs of José Maria Sanchez, by whom the claim had been originally presented, and who deraigned title, as he alleged, from the original grantees. A petition for an injunction is now presented under the 13th section of the act of 1851, by Elizabeth Martin, who claims title under a conveyance by Carmen Castro, one of the original grantees. The confirmees also claim title under the same person, but the petitioner alleges that at the time of the alleged conveyance to the confirmees, Carmen was the wife of one Soto; that the said Soto neither executed nor had knowledge of the deed, nor did Carmen acknowledge the same on a private examination, apart from her husband, as required by law. It is therefore contended that the subsequent deed by Carmen, under which the petitioner claims, and which was duly executed after her husband’s death, conveyed the title to her portion of the rancho, and that the parties holding that title have the right to enjoin the issuing of the patent to the…