Punderson v. Love
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Brazos County. The facts of this case are stated, in the opinion of the court, as far as the reporters are able to give them. The originals of the several exhibits used as testimony at the trial, and referred to in the opinion, were sent up to this court by the order of the district judge (except exhibit X), and were not copied in the transcript of the record.
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— Appeal from Brazos County. The facts of this case are stated, in the opinion of the court, as far as the reporters are able to give them. The originals of the several exhibits used as testimony at the trial, and referred to in the opinion, were sent up to this court by the order of the district judge (except exhibit X), and were not copied in the transcript of the record. These originals have since been withdrawn, by the permission of the court, and cannot now be referred to for the purpose of giving a more detailed statement of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
*61Opinion of the court delivered by
Mr. Justice Wheelee:
This suit was instituted by the appellant to try the title and recover of the appellee the possession of a tract of land.
The defendant first filed a general denial, and subsequently an “ amended answer,” in which he alleges that he entered, and is now settled upon a certain tract of land, in good faith, believing the same to be vacant, and has made valuable improvements thereon; that his entry was made in 1842, agreeably to law, but was not surveyed until 1848 in consequence of a vacancy in the office of county surveyor — concluded by…
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