Sandoval v. Priest
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Errpr to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas; Thos. S. Maxey, Judge. Action at law by Alberto Sandoval and others against Theo Priest and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
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In Errpr to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas; Thos. S. Maxey, Judge. Action at law by Alberto Sandoval and others against Theo Priest and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error. The plaintiffs in error on this cause brought suit in trespass to try title to recover the title and possession of a tract of land containing about 82 acres alleged to be of the reasonable cash market value of $309 per acre, situated in Bexar county, Tex. The defendants in error pleaded, as against plaintiffs in error, not guilty, and the statutes of…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). What estate did the heirs of Maria de Jesus Carbajal, wife of Mariano Rodriguez, take to the property in controversy upon her death in 1832; the parties and property then being in Mexico ?
Bearing upon this question, the following propositions appear to be sound: -
[1] First. The United States courts sitting in Texas take judicial notice of the laws in force in that territory prior to the independance thereof, since said laws were the laws of an antecedent government to which the government of Texas is the successor. See Fremont v. United States, 17 How. 542,…
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