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.

702 The United States vs. Sutter.
857 STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Yuba, ss:
District court, May term, A. D. 1855.
Ninth day, Tuesday, May 22d, A. D. 1855.
Among other, the following proceedings were had, to wit:
EDWARD TAYLOR
Is.
JOHN A. SUTTER AND ANNA SUTTER, his wife,
EDWARDS WOODRUFF and JOHN Q. PACKARD.
This cause having been called in the calendar, it is by the court
ordered that it be referred to T. B. Reardon, esq., a resident of the
city of Marysville, Yuba county, California, as sole referee, to ascertain and find the facts necessary to enable the court to proceed and
determine this cause, and to report the same to this court with all
convenient speed.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Yuba, 88:
858 I, Wm. W. Dobbins, clerk of the district court of the tenth
judicial district in and for the county of Yuba, do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy
of an original order made by our said court in the above-entitled
cause, as the same now remains of record in the office of the clerk of
said court.
Witness my hand and the seal of said court affixed this 8th
day of June, A. D. 1855.
WM. W. DOBBINS,
Clerk District Court, Yuba County, Cal'a,
Per S. A. ARMSTRONG, Dep'ty.
District court, tenth judicial district, county of Yuba.
EDWARD TAYLOR
vs.
JOHN A. SUTTER and ANNA SUTTER, his wife,
EDWARDS WOODRUFF and JOHN Q. PACKARD.
859 I, the undersigned, having been heretofore, to wit, on the
twenty-second day of May, A. D. 1855, by an order of the
district court of the tenth judicial district, in the county of Yuba,
made and entered on that day, appointed sole referee to try, determine, and report to the said court the facts in the above-entitled
cause, did, on the twenty-ninth day of May, A. D. 1855, after due
notice to all the parties, and after the appearance of the said parties
by S. J. Field, esq., of counsel for plaintiff, by L. Sanders, jr., att'y
for the defendants, John A. Sutter and Anna Sutter, his wife, and by