Guilbeau v. Mays

The plaintiff claimed under a grant of a *411league of land to each of the grantees, DeLeon and Gomez. The defendants pleaded not guilty; prescription of three years; also that there was no record of the plaintiff’s grant in the General Land Office, nor in the county where the land was situated; that they, the defendants, held by patents issued from the Government of Texas, and locations of valid certificates, without notice of the plaintiff’s title. They also pleaded that the plaintiff’s vendors were aliens, incapable of holding or suing for land, and incapable of conveying title to the…