Walker v. McDonald
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Comal. Tried before before the Hon. George H. Hoonan. The facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.—Appellant,
claiming to be the legal owner of 2,280 acres of land, valuable mainly for the guano in a cave inhabited by bats, brought suit against the *460appellees to recover possession, and to enjoin them from removing the guano. The land was the separate property of Mrs. S. E. Weir, who, joined by her husband, Henry Weir, gave a deed of trust thereon to secure the payment of $1,000 to one Firebough, and at a sale regularly had under said trust deed on March 7,1876, J. E. Fokes became the purchaser for the sum of $802, (that being about the balance of the debt then…
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