Hughes v. Lane
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cass. This was a suit for the recovery of lands brought by the appellee.. He claimed by virtue of a certificate issued to the heirs'of lienry Lane, deceased, on the 4th of September, 1833, and which was located anil surveyed on the lauds 29th March, 1838, and through a conveyance to himself from the said heirs. lie read in evidence the copy of the certificate and the field-notes of the survey, without objection, and proved the heirship of his grantors and the…
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Appeal from Cass. This was a suit for the recovery of lands brought by the appellee.. He claimed by virtue of a certificate issued to the heirs'of lienry Lane, deceased, on the 4th of September, 1833, and which was located anil surveyed on the lauds 29th March, 1838, and through a conveyance to himself from the said heirs. lie read in evidence the copy of the certificate and the field-notes of the survey, without objection, and proved the heirship of his grantors and the execution of their deed of conveyance. The plaintiff recovered judgment, and a motion for a new trial was overruled. The…
1Opinion of the Court
HbmphiIiI/, Ch. J.
The counsel for the appellee is mistaken in supposing that the motion was not made in time. The verdict is dated on the 22d of March, and the judgment must have been then rendered, and not on the ISth, as-stated in the brief. The motion was filed on the 24th.
It is insisted that the motion for a new trial should 'have been sustained on one of tile grounds embraced in the motion, viz, that it was .contrary to the law and the evidence, and that the evidence was defective in not showing- that the certificate had been recommended as genuine and legal.
" It is a general rule in…
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