Medlin v. Wilkins
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George H. ¡Noonan. Suit by the plaintiffs in error for the purpose of trying the title to some thirty-eight town lots situated in the city of San Antonio.
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Error from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George H. ¡Noonan. Suit by the plaintiffs in error for the purpose of trying the title to some thirty-eight town lots situated in the city of San Antonio. The property sued for was described in plaintiffs’ petition as “ thirty-eight town lots situated in the city of San Antonio, . . . on the east side of the Madre Ditch, about one hundred and thirty varas below the Alameda, on the upper and lower side of ¡North street, and numbered according to a plot made by G. Freisleben, city suiweyor, as follows: . . . being the same property known as the…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.
Upon the trial the court, among other things, instructed the jury as follows: “The jury will also find for *412the defendants if they believe that the plaintiffs, by their agreement, acquiesced in the north line of the Fuentes suerte as occupied by J. H. Beck. In determining this question, the jury may take into consideration the decree entered by consent in the case of James Dimmitt and others against Angel C. Torres and others, that is, if ratified by plaintiffs, and if the jury believe that the plaintiffs in this case are the same plaintiffs that were in the case against…
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