League v. Rogan
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from San Saba. Tried below before the Hon. A. O. Cooley. A statement of the lengthy pleading in this case, or of the evidence, which was voluminous, would not make more plain the legal principles announced. Enough is stated in the opinion of the facts to make the conclusions announced understood. Appellants were-plaintiffs below.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice. —
In the view which we take of this ■case, a consideration of many of the assignments of error becomes unnecessary.
The land in controversy was patented to William O’Connell as the assignee of Alfred Morris, on December 22, 1847, and the appellees claim through conveyance made by the patentee O’Connell to David F. Brown, on the 12th of September, 1857. Whatever right the appellants have is based upon a conveyance to their ancestor, Thomas M. League, of the certificate upon which the land was granted, which was made in 1839.
The court found in favor of all of the…
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