Webb v. Goldsmith

(after stating the facts as above). [1] In an effort to discharge the burden which rested upon him to show, prima facie at least, that he had title to the land (Atkinson v. Shelton, 160 S. W. 316), appellee proved that certificate No. 447, issued to Joseph Beaty, was conveyed to John McKinney September 2, 1839, and then proved that on April 30, 1874, the administrator de bonis non of McKinney’s estate sold and, as directed by the probate court, conveyed said certificate to S. W. Weaver, whose title he (appel-lee) had acquired.

The conclusion of the trial court that the effect of the conveyance…