Cook v. Burnley
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. This suit was brought February 4, 1852, in the District Court of Calhoun county, by A. T. Burnley & Levi Jones, against. William M. Cook, James H. and J. W. Baldridge, -Sparks,-Cbipman and Soloman Cunningham.
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Error from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. James Masterson. This suit was brought February 4, 1852, in the District Court of Calhoun county, by A. T. Burnley & Levi Jones, against. William M. Cook, James H. and J. W. Baldridge, -Sparks,-Cbipman and Soloman Cunningham. The petition alleged ownership of three quarters by Burnley, and a legal but contingent interest by Jones, of one quarter of the league of land granted to Juan Cano, as a colonist of De Leon’s colony, the laying off a town site thereon more than four years previously, and various acts of ownership, in order to establish and…
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chief Justice.
The defendants in error recovered a judgment against the plaintiff in error on the 4th day of August, 1871, in the District Court of Harris county, which was brought to this court by writ of error and filed on the 8th day of January, 1872.
The suit was originally instituted in the District Court of Calhoun county, on the 4th day of February, 1852, with the parties thereto, as follows, to wit: Albert T. Burnley, of Hew Orleans, Louisiana, and Levi Jones, of Calhoun county, Texas, v. William M. Cook, of Calhoun county, Texas; Soloman Cunningham, of Calhoun county, Texas;…
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