Smith v. Gillum

HOBBY, Presiding Judge.

The land involved in this suit was originally granted to Asahel Savery by the government of Coahuila and Texas on April 13, 1835. Mrs. Harriet Smith, the appellant, who was intervenor in the court below, claims the land as devisee under the will of her father, the grantee.

The appellees deraign title from and under an act of sale executed in the State of Louisiana on January 5, 1837, by said Savery to one Albert Emanuel, before Wm. Boswell, a notary public in and for the city and parish of Bew Orleans, and two witnesses—Edward Barnett and Francois Moitan—and through a…