Legal Opinion
August Reese v. Zach L. Cobb
Texas Supreme Court
Decided November 20, 1912No. 2257PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fourth District, in an appeal from El Paso County. Cobb sued Rees and others for the recovery of land. Plaintiff had judgment which was affirmed on appeal by defendants. Appellants then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brown
The facts as shown by the record are that on the 5th day of February, 1853, the Legislature of the State of Texas enacted this law:
“Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the grant made to the people of Presidio de San Elizario in the year seventeen hundred and ninety, to the following described tract of land, to-wit: commencing on the Rio Grande at a point where the established line of division between the towns of Socarro and San Elizario strikes said river for the northern boundary, and following said line to the hills bordering on the eastern bank of the…
2Cited by11 opinions
- Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. BlankenburgTexas Supreme Court · 1951
- Wixom v. BowersCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1941
- Niendorff v. WoodCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1941
- Kilpatrick v. McKenzie, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2006
- Friedman Oil Corp. v. Southern Oil Refining Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1934
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