Jones v. Andrews
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. Appellees brought this suit the 17th day of April, 1879, in the district court of Bastrop county, against G. W. Jones, T. J. Mullin, Moses Gage, Thomas Reider, Andrew Yaws and Murray Burleson and wife, S. E. Burleson, for damages and to try the title to land known as the W. H. Hunt one-fourth league.
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Appeal from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. Appellees brought this suit the 17th day of April, 1879, in the district court of Bastrop county, against G. W. Jones, T. J. Mullin, Moses Gage, Thomas Reider, Andrew Yaws and Murray Burleson and wife, S. E. Burleson, for damages and to try the title to land known as the W. H. Hunt one-fourth league. On the 6th day of October, 1879, by supplemental petition, they made B. S. McWilliams, A. L. Saunders and Caton Erhard defendants. Appellees denied the allegations in the defendants’ answer, and averred that the statute of limitations…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
The question of most controlling consequence presented under the numerous grounds assigned as error by the appellants arises on their objection to the charge given by the court.
Under the evidence and pleading in the case it devolved on the plaintiffs, to entitle them to recover, to establish the boundary lines of the W. H. Hunt survey of one-fourth of a league of land. There was evidence tending to establish three sides of the survey, viz.: the east, south and west boundary lines; identifying them by the calls of the field notes of that survey. The evidence referred to…
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