Copy complaint. Desiderio Briones & wife vs. Mariano G. Vallejo, et al. [manuscript].

              State of California District Court of the Seventh Judicial District in and for the County of Contra Costa
Desiderio Briones and
Teodora Soto de Briones his wife
vs.
Mariano G Vallejo, John B Frisbie
S C Hastings and George Scupar

The above named plaintiffs who are residents of said County of Contra Costa Complain of the above named Defendants and for cause of action allege as follows to wit

That in the year 1841 or thereabouts there was granted by the then Governor of Upper California in due form of law to the Plaintiff Teodora Soto who was then an unmarried woman and who has since intermarried with her present husband the plaintiff Desiderio Briones, a tract of Land known as the "Cañada del Hambre" situated in what is now the County of Contra Costa and containing three square leagues of lands, of which tract the said Teodora Soto took possession, and in which she made valuable improvements, and she has continued to reside upon the said tract from the date of said grant or from a short time thereafter down to the present time.

That sometime in the Spring of the year