Ingram v. Walker

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellee recovered two tracts of land of 160 acres each, situated in Montague County, located in 1860, by virtue of a certificate or warrant issued to William Moffitt in 1838, in consideration of three.months’ military service rendered by him prior to that time.

His discharge, as set out below, bore date September 12, 1836, and had indorsed upon it an assignment to Robert Townsley, authorizing him to receive in his own name all pay, bounty lands, etc., due said Moffitt from the government on the same. In 1845, pending administration upon the estate of said Robert…