Republic of Texas v. Thorn
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Nacogdoches County. This action was instituted against the republic, to establish, the validity of a claim to lands within the twenty border leagues, by virtue of authority derived from the act to quiet the land titles within that section of the country, approved January 9y 1841. [See Laws of 1841, p.
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— Appeal from Nacogdoches County. This action was instituted against the republic, to establish, the validity of a claim to lands within the twenty border leagues, by virtue of authority derived from the act to quiet the land titles within that section of the country, approved January 9y 1841. [See Laws of 1841, p. ITT.] The petition represents that Jose Ybarbo, for himself, and on behalf of his three brothers, applied, in the month of February, 182T, to the political chief of the department of Texas for a concession of certain parts of a tract of land mentioned in the memorial; that the laud…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice JIkmpiiill,
after stating the facts, deliv.ered the opinion of the court.
No bills of exceptions having been preserved in this cause, and no statement of facts being sent up with the record, the ■only question for consideration is, whether the judgment ean be sustained, admitting that all the facts which, under the *504allegations, could be legally proven in a suit of this character,, have been fully established and found to be true by the verdict of the jury.
It was contended in the argument for the appellee that the-judgment was erroneous, and should be reversed, on the ground…
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