Wood v. Chambers
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Washington. Tried below before the Hon. R. E. B. Baylor. Action of trespass to try title to four hundred acres of land, by appellant against appellee, commenced in Austin county* and removed by change of venue to Washington.
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Appeal from Washington. Tried below before the Hon. R. E. B. Baylor. Action of trespass to try title to four hundred acres of land, by appellant against appellee, commenced in Austin county* and removed by change of venue to Washington. Plaintiff claimed by purchase at Sheriff’s sale under execution on judgments, dated April 18th, 1851, and November 12th, 1851, recovered by plaintiff against Charles Railey in Austin county, in suits commenced on the 6th of June, 1849. One judgment was for $928, and the other for $721 60. Defendant claimed by deed from Charles Railey to James A. Railey for two…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The seventh and eighth instructions, complained of, are objectionable as calling the minds of the jury to particular parts of the evidence, and giving those parts undue *253prominence, instead of leaving the question of intention to be decided by them in view of all the circumstances of the case. The example of this objectionable mode of asking charges, however, had been set by the plaintiff in the instructions asked by him. His instructions, repeating in detail portions of the evidence, having been given, it was natural that the defendant should seek to countervail their effect by bringing…
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