Waggoner v. Daniels

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought April 3, 1890, by appellee T. W. Daniels against appellants W. T. Waggoner and S. B. Burnett, to recover a tract of 308 acres of land located in 1886 by virtue of a confederate certificate for the benefit of the common school fund. Daniels deraigned title from S. P. Hawkins, who, as an alleged actual settler, purchased the land from the State in the year 1888, under •the Act of 1887. Appellants were the several owners of the Samuel Anderson survey, patented in 1877, and had been in actual possession of the land in controversy, as a part of…