G., H. & S. A. R'y Co. v. Stealey
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Boonan. On March 27, 1885, appellees filed their petition in the district court of Uvalde county, alleging that they were seized in fee and were the legal and equitable owners of one-third of a league of land in Uvalde county, describing the same by metes and bounds, patented to George W. Stramler, and located by virtue of headright certificate Bo. 186, issued by the board of land commissioners of Montgomery county, Texas,…
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. G. H. Boonan. On March 27, 1885, appellees filed their petition in the district court of Uvalde county, alleging that they were seized in fee and were the legal and equitable owners of one-third of a league of land in Uvalde county, describing the same by metes and bounds, patented to George W. Stramler, and located by virtue of headright certificate Bo. 186, issued by the board of land commissioners of Montgomery county, Texas, February 2, 1838, to George W. Stramler; also alleging that appellant had ejected them from the land, and withheld the…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson, Associate Justice.
This was an action of trespass to try title to one-third of a league of land in Hvalde county by the heirs of George Stealey, deceased, against the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Bailway Company. The land was patented on March 28, 1854, to Geo. W. Steamier, and the plaintiffs claimed to own it by a deed made by Geo. W. Stramler to George Stealey on July 4, 1846. The plaintiffs weré admitted to be the heirs at law of Stealey, and they were entitled to recover the land, and the judgment below in their favor should be affirmed, if the deed of July 4, 1846, was…
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