Villa v. Rodriguez

ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of California; the case being thus: George Alexander filed a bill in the court below against Jacinto Rodriguez and George Steele with three others, his brothers, to redeem a ranch of land near San Luis Obispo, in California, known as the Rancho Corral de Piedra, from an instrument which he averred to be a mortgage upon the land; an instrument whose history was much disputed, but which seemed essentially thus: