John Archibald Campbell, United States v. Rose — Opinion of the Court
“ On the 28th December, Micheltorena replied to a letter from Sutter, in which he says: 'I approve in its whole what you say to me in your last. What you may do, I approve; what you may promise, I will fulfil; what you may spend, I will pay. * * * The country calls for our services; our personal security requires it, and the Government will know how to recompense all. ”
John Archibald Campbell, United States v. Rose — Opinion of the Court
“ The license of the Governor to the applicant to make a temporary occupation, until he could inform himself, so as to act considerately or intelligently, we think, cannot be treated as conferring a property in the land. ”
John Archibald Campbell, United States v. Rose — Opinion of the Court
“ That in September, 1844, he petitioned the Governor of California for the land, and obtained a favorable report from Captain Sutter, and in 1845 received from the latter a copy of the 'general title,' which the Governor had authorized him to give. That in 1844 he built a house upon the land, planted an orchard of fruit trees, and in that and the following year enclosed a field by ditches, and cultivated it, and that he had there a stock of cattle. He says he resided on the land until 1848, when he sold it to persons under whom the claimants derive their claim. ”
