The United States v. Andres Castillero Andres Castillero v. the United States
Decision Date | 01 December 1862 |
Citation | 67 U.S. 17,17 L.Ed. 360,2 Black 17 |
Parties | THE UNITED STATES v. ANDRES CASTILLERO. ANDRES CASTILLERO v. THE UNITED STATES |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
'Mission of Santa Clara, November 2d, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
'ANDRES CASTILLERO.
'JOSE MARIA DEL R. S. DEL REAL.
'For the Senores Secundino Robles and Teodoro Robles.
'FRANCISCO ARCE.
'It is a copy of the original, to which I refer.
'Santa Clara, December 8, 1845.
'MANUEL CASTRO.
'Antonio M. Pico.'- To this expediente was appended the following certificate by James W. Weekes, who was then acting as Alcalde of San Jose.
'COURT OF THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
'San Jose Guadalupe, Upper California.
'I certify in due form that the foregoing is a faithful copy made to the letter from its original, the 'expediente' of the mine of Santa Clara or New Almaden, which exists in the archives under my charge, to which I refer. And in testimony thereof, I have signed it this twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
'JAMES WEEKES, Alcalde.'
Weekes being called by the United States as a witness, testified that the body of the papers, as well as the certificates, were written by James Alexander Forbes, then one of the complainants, and that he (Weekes) had signed the certificate without seeing any original, but merely because Forbes requested him to do so, and in the belief that such a request would not be made unless it was right. J. A. Forbes swore that he made the copy, not from official...
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