Scheller v. Groesbeck
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Ninth. Supreme Judicial District. Action by J. N. Groesbeck and others against L. Scheller and others, in which George M. Coale was impleaded, and Katherine Wolf subsequently was made a defendant. A judgment for plaintiffs against Schel-ler and Wolf and in favor of the named defendants against defendant Coale on his covenant of warranty was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals (215 S. W. 353), and defendant Scheller and others bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtKittrell, J.
The sole question to be determined in this ease is whether a deed executed January 30, 1842, by John H. Walton to Lent M. Hitchcock, Jr., for “a league of land, the said league of land being the same that was granted to,” etc., operated so as to convey a “labor” of land surveyed coincident with the survey of the league, and incorporated in the same Mexican grant, and both believed to have been in the same county (Liberty), and both so described and dealt with, though, as was subsequently developed, the league is in fact in Jasper county.
The chain of title begins with a grant (the original of…
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