Pilcher v. Kirk
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Erath. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Osterhout. Sidney Pilcher filed her petition in the district court of Erath county on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1813, against A. L. Kirk, William Hughes and Henry French, for the recovery of one-third of a league of land, averring, in substance, that the land had been located by virtue of a certificate issued by the district court of Liberty county, Texas, on the 9th day of October, A. D. 1841, to John Gaylor; that John…
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Appeal from Erath. Tried below before the Hon. J. P. Osterhout. Sidney Pilcher filed her petition in the district court of Erath county on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1813, against A. L. Kirk, William Hughes and Henry French, for the recovery of one-third of a league of land, averring, in substance, that the land had been located by virtue of a certificate issued by the district court of Liberty county, Texas, on the 9th day of October, A. D. 1841, to John Gaylor; that John Gaylor, the grantee, died in Liberty county, Texas, on the 4th day of March, 1848; that she was his sole surviving…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.
Appellant brought this suit of trespass to try title to a third of a league of land, patented *211to John Gaylor; alleging in her petition that he died on the 4th day of March, 1848, in Liberty county, Texas, and “that she is the only surviving legal heir of said John Gaylor, deceased, all of his children and grandchildren having long since departed this life, except this plaintiff, who is an only grand-daughter to said John Gaylor, deceased, and that she is the only daughter now living of Mariah Pilcher, formerly Gaylor; and claims under her mother, who was the daughter of…
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