Cole v. Grigsby
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. This suit, an action of trespass to try title and for partition, was instituted on the 14th day of August, 1874, in the District Court of Dallas County, by the plaintiffs Daniel B. Grigsby and Maria Louisa Swindle née Edens, joined by her husband C. C. Swindle, against the ¿ppellant and three hundred or more other defendants, one of whom was Bobert F. Aspley, to recover the community…
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. This suit, an action of trespass to try title and for partition, was instituted on the 14th day of August, 1874, in the District Court of Dallas County, by the plaintiffs Daniel B. Grigsby and Maria Louisa Swindle née Edens, joined by her husband C. C. Swindle, against the ¿ppellant and three hundred or more other defendants, one of whom was Bobert F. Aspley, to recover the community interest of their mother in the James A. Sylvester 640 acre survey, and in about 3284 acres in the John Grigsby league and…
1Opinion of the Court
BBOWH, Associate Justice.
Of the many grounds of error presented, we deem it unnecessary to consider but one, and as applicable to that one the following statement of the facts will be sufficient for its discussion.
The land involved in the ease as presented in this court is a part of a league and labor headlight survey granted to John Grigsby, which was the community property of himself- and his wife Louisa Grigsby. John Grigsby died in 1841, after which, in the year 1842, the patent for the land was issued by the Bepublie of Texas in the name of the said John Grigsby.
At his death, John…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Veramendi v. HutchinsTexas Supreme Court · 1878
- Thompson v. CraggTexas Supreme Court · 1859
- Grigsby v. MayTexas Supreme Court · 1892
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