Robinson v. Doss
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cook. Tried below before D. E. Barnett, Esq., special judge. Suit by S. E. Doss, begun. August 24, 1874, against W. T. Robinson et al., in which he alleged the ownership of land certificates and surveys thereunder; that the defendants had entered upon and ejected him from the land, claiming the same under a patent to a league and labor granted to Philip A. Sublett, assignee of John Barnett.
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Appeal from Cook. Tried below before D. E. Barnett, Esq., special judge. Suit by S. E. Doss, begun. August 24, 1874, against W. T. Robinson et al., in which he alleged the ownership of land certificates and surveys thereunder; that the defendants had entered upon and ejected him from the land, claiming the same under a patent to a league and labor granted to Philip A. Sublett, assignee of John Barnett. The defendants claimed title under the Sublett (or Barnett), patent, and alleged that the call in the patent (set forth in the opinion) on the head of Tonkawa, etc., was inserted by mistake.…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
Doss claimed the land for which he sued by virtue of locations in 1874.
The defendants claim under a patent for a league and labor of land to Sublett, assignee of Barnett, issued November 1, 1855. The plaintiff claiming that the field notes of the patent to Sublett, instead of including a rectangle of 8,000 by 3,250 varas, making a league and labor, in fact include only a rectangle of 5,400 by 3,250 varas, located on the eastern part of the land claimed by defendants, as on vacant public domain.
Whether this land so located was included in the land patented to Sublett…
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