Jordan v. Higgins
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Jefferson. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Ford. This was a suit brought to try the title to two lots in the town of Beaumont, claimed by plaintiff under a tax deed to James Ingalls, Jr., dated June 1, 1880, against parties who had used and occupied the lots continuously for ten years prior to March 31, 1880. The cause was tried by the court, and judgment given for the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
This action was brought by the appellant to recover certain lots in the town of Beaumont.
- The appellees answered by a plea of not guilty and the statutes of limitation of ten years.
A judgment was rendered in favor of the defendants quieting *151them in their titles to the several parts of the lots by them, respectively claimed.
The appellant, as evidence of title, relied upon a tax deed made by the collector of taxes for Jefferson county under a sale made for taxes on the lots for the year 1879.
Objections were sustained to the admission of the deed under which the…
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