Supreme court of the United States. No. 135. The United States, appellants, vs. John A. Sutter. Appeal from the District court U.S. for the Northern district of California.

458 The United States vs. Sutler.
divers mesne conveyances, to wit: A decree of M. F. Geear, as late
sheriff of the county of Sutter, in the State of California, made by
authority and in pursuance of law as such sheriff, under and by virtue
of sale of all the right, title, and interest of the said John A. Sutter
and Anna Sutter his wife, under a precept issued out of the district
court of the fourth judicial district, dated the 8th day of June A. D.
1855, at which said sale John Q. Packard and Edward Woodruff
became purchasers, and therefore became entitled to and received
said decree last aforesaid. And that afterwards, to wit, on the 5th
day of April, A. D. 1860, the said Packard and Woodruff sold and
conveyed to petitioner the tract or parcel of land so described as
aforesaid, containing fifty acres, or thereabouts, and he is the legal
owner thereof, and still continues to be such owner, and he herewith
exhibits his title to this court, and offer to file the same as part of
this his petition. The petitioner alleges and shows that, by reason
of the premises and such ownership, he is interested in the
201 survey of the original grant of the Mexican government to the
said John A. Sutter, and by the board of United States land
commissioners, this honorable court, and the Supreme Court of the
States, the same stands confirmed to said John A. Sutter, his heirs or
assigns.
Your petitioner, being so interested as aforesaid, and being desirous to intervene in the said matter of the survey made and returned
to this honorable court by the surveyor general of the United States
for the district of California, and to make his exceptions thereto in
conformity to law and the rules of this honorable court, prays the
court that he may be allowed to intervene herein and file his exceptions to said survey within such time allowed by the rules and under
the direct'on of this honorable court; and, as in duty bound, will
ever, &c.
AMOS PRATT.
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA:
United States of America, ss:
Amos Pratt, the aforesaid petitioner, being duly sworn according
to law, deposeth and saith he has heard the foregoing petition read,
and understands the contents thereof, and the same is true of
202 his own knowledge, excepting such parts thereof stated on
information and belief, and that parts thereof he believes to
be true; and farther he saith not.
AMOS PRATT.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 26th day of Sept., 1860.
W. H. CHEVERS, U. S. Comr
Endorsed: Filed Sept. 26th, 1860.
W. H. CHEVERS, Clerk.