White v. Van Horn
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR. TO THE CIRCUIT COURT CE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS.. On the 2d of October, 1889, widow Martha Ann Van Horn, Elizabeth Evans, and her husband, David B. Evans, all three citizens of the State of Missouri, and Mary Ann Boling,- and her husband, W. W. Boling; citizens of the State-of Kentucky, brought an-action against Joseph L. White, a citizen of Hill County, State of Texas.
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ERROR. TO THE CIRCUIT COURT CE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS.. On the 2d of October, 1889, widow Martha Ann Van Horn, Elizabeth Evans, and her husband, David B. Evans, all three citizens of the State of Missouri, and Mary Ann Boling,- and her husband, W. W. Boling; citizens of the State-of Kentucky, brought an-action against Joseph L. White, a citizen of Hill County, State of Texas. The action was one of ejectment to recover a certain tract of land, situated in Hill County. The plaintiffs claimed to be the owners of an undivided third each of the land for which they…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The assignments of error are addressed, first, to the alleged illegal admission of evidence ; secondly, to the refusal of the court to give certain charges; and, thirdly, to the charges actually given.
1st. The defendant objected to the introduction of the deed' of sale made by J. H. Chism on October 31,1838, of his bounty certificate, because it was res inter alios and irrelevant. ■ The objection was untenable. The issue of forgery vel non of the deed from which the title in controversy was deraigned. clearly made the proof relevant. The evidence tended tó show the manner in which J. H. Chism…
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