State v. Parker
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hidalgo. Tried below before the Hon. John 0. Russell. This suit was brought in the name of the state of Texas as plaintiff, July 9, 1872, against Salvador Cardenas and others, and against Parker, administrator of Reynolds, alleging the title of the state to the salt lake notoriously known as “El Sal del Rey,” comprising about a square league, ouster therefrom by defendants, prayer to recover the same, and indorsement that the suit was brought as well to try title…
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Appeal from Hidalgo. Tried below before the Hon. John 0. Russell. This suit was brought in the name of the state of Texas as plaintiff, July 9, 1872, against Salvador Cardenas and others, and against Parker, administrator of Reynolds, alleging the title of the state to the salt lake notoriously known as “El Sal del Rey,” comprising about a square league, ouster therefrom by defendants, prayer to recover the same, and indorsement that the suit was brought as well to try title as for damages. The defendant Parker pleaded his title under a patent from the state to H. M. Lewis, which issued…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.—
At the time the act was passed validating the patent to Lewis, and relinquishing all the state’s right to .the land therein embraced, the act of June 3, 1837, reserving “ salt springs, gold or silver mines, copper or lead, or other minerals,” had not been judicially examined and construed. And it may have been the object of the validating act to remove all doubt as to the validity of the patent, and to show that the land therein embraced was vested in Lewis and his vendees. It was, perhaps, a precautionary measure to obviate the effects of any adverse construction of the…
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