Blount v. Webster

Rogers, S. J.

This suit was brought by the appellant, to try title to a league and labor of land, conveyed to him by one Wilson Ewing, and granted to Ewing on the 29th of October, 1835, by George W. Smyth, Special Commissioner of the State of Coahuila and Texas, appointed under the 32nd Article of the Law of 26th of March, 1834, granting land and providing for issuing titles to the inhabitants of the frontier of Nacogdoches and those residing east of Austin’s Colonies.

*617The petition alleges, that the land lay within the twenty leagues bordering on the United States, and that Wilson Ewing resided…