Wood v. Collins
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. In Equity. Bill filed by J. F. Wood and others against John S. Collins and others. There was a decree for respondents, and complainants appeal.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. In Equity. Bill filed by J. F. Wood and others against John S. Collins and others. There was a decree for respondents, and complainants appeal. This suit was Drought by appellants by bill in equity to restrain prosecution of a suit at law instituted by appellees on the law side of the docket against appellants to recover 320 acres of land in McLennan county, Tex., patented to file heirs of W. P. Johnson, December 12, 1872, upon a location and survey made in 1871. Appellants allege in their bill that they…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The appel-
lants do not complain of the correctness of the facts as found by the trial'court, except in two respects: First, the finding that J. D. Bivens, under whom appellants claim title, settled upon the land in controversy with the intention pf claiming it as a preemption some time in the year 1853, some time after February 7th and before December 21st of that year; and, second, the finding that it was admitted on the trial that the defendants below, appellees here, are the owners of the W. P. Johnson title to the land in controversy. Our examination of the…
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