Legal Opinion
Malone v. Dick
Texas Supreme Court
Decided March 4, 1901No. 989PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Ekrok to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Parker County. Malone and others sued Dick in trespass to try title and recovered judgment, from which defendants appealed. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed and rendered judgment for appellant, and appellees obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The land in controversy in this case was located1 and surveyed by virtue of a bounty warrant issued by the Secretary of War of the Republic of Texas, July 5, 1838, which is as follows:
“Republic of Texas.
“Know all men to whom these presents shall come: That Wm. T. Malone having served faithfully and honorably for the term of five months from the twenty-sixth day of September, 1835, to the sixth day of March, 1836, and having fallen in the Alamo, is entitled to nineteen hundred and twenty acres bounty land, for which this is his certificate. And said Wm. T. Malone or…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rogers v. RewardTexas Supreme Court · 1880
- McPhail v. BurrisTexas Supreme Court · 1874
3Cited by2 opinions
- Balentine v. DodgeCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1911
- Lynch v. PittmanCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1903