Irion v. Mills
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Navarro county. Tried below before the Hon. F. P. Wood. This was an action of trespass to try title, brought by Mills & Halbert against Irion and others, to recover a tract of land in Navarro county, to which both parties claimed . title under Henry Griggs, in whom they agreed the title was vested prior to 1863. To show title in themselves, Mills & Halbert gave in evidence— 1. Judgment of Bonner against Griggs, rendered by the District Court of Navarro county…
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Appeal from Navarro county. Tried below before the Hon. F. P. Wood. This was an action of trespass to try title, brought by Mills & Halbert against Irion and others, to recover a tract of land in Navarro county, to which both parties claimed . title under Henry Griggs, in whom they agreed the title was vested prior to 1863. To show title in themselves, Mills & Halbert gave in evidence— 1. Judgment of Bonner against Griggs, rendered by the District Court of Navarro county April 27,1866, on a note for ten thousand dollars, dated July 3, 1860, and due January 1, 1861, which was given in payment…
1Opinion of the Court
Devine, Associate Justice.
The appellees, Mills and Halbert, brought suit, by an action of trespass to try title, for the recovery of one thousand and fifty-five acres of land from John L. Irion, Lockhart, and others.
Appellant, Irion, after a general denial, set out in his original and amended answers that the land in suit was conveyed to him in May, 1863, by Henry Griggs, the owner of the same, in satisfaction of a trust fund held by Griggs, as trustee for the wife of defendant, Irion, she being the daughter of Henry and Haney Griggs.
Defendant, Lockhart, as administrator of Henry Griggs,…
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