Mason v. McLaughlin
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lavaca. Suit by appellee against appellant, commenced September 13th, 1855. The petition alleged that on the 5th day of November, 1850, Philip Mason, the defendant’s father, fraudulently sold and delivered to the plaintiff, Ms headright certificate for one league and labor of land, No. 751, first class, issued by the Board of Land Commissioners of Shelby County, in the year 1839, in consideration of a tract of land, containing one hundred and fifty-four acres,…
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Appeal from Lavaca. Suit by appellee against appellant, commenced September 13th, 1855. The petition alleged that on the 5th day of November, 1850, Philip Mason, the defendant’s father, fraudulently sold and delivered to the plaintiff, Ms headright certificate for one league and labor of land, No. 751, first class, issued by the Board of Land Commissioners of Shelby County, in the year 1839, in consideration of a tract of land, containing one hundred and fifty-four acres, describing it, in Lavaca county, to which plaintiff had full title and which he then conveyed to said Philip, and which…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
The first assignment is as to the supposed error in permitting the plaintiff to read in evidence certain papers, set out in the defendant’s bill of exceptions. The first paper, embraced in the exception, is marked A, and purports to be the copy of a paper filed in the General Land Office, being the several transfers of certificate No. 749, from Philip Mason to the last assigned, Travis G. Brooks. The objection to the paper was twofold, viz :
1st. That it purported to be an assignment of a different certificate from that set out in the petition ; and
2nd. That it was not such a…
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