Andrews v. Smithwick
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Burnet. Tried below before the Hon. E. H. Vontress. The trial below was had at the October term, 1860. Nearly all of the material facts of this veteran case will be found in the two former reports of it, in 20 Texas, 111, and 24 Texas, 488. ■ On the last trial, however, some additional evidence was introcluced by the defendant, and as it is clearly collated in the arguments made in this court, a reference for it to them will suffice here.
1Opinion of the Court
0 0-den, J.
This suit was originally brought in the district court in 1855,. to recover a bounty land certificate, or its value, which was, proven to have been sold at one time for about twenty-five dollars* There appears- to- have been five different trials in the cause in the district court, and it is now in this court for the third time ; and we would therefore he inclined to- finally settle the whole matter, and stop further litigation, but for the manifest error and wrong in the judgment of the lower court as rendered on the last trial. The two former opinions delivered in this cause seem…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Andrews v. SmithwickTexas Supreme Court · 1857
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