Jones v. League
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the district court of the United States for 'the district of Texas. •. It was an action of trespass to try title brought by League against Jones and the other plaintiffs in error.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the district court of the United States for 'the district of Texas. •. It was an action of trespass to try title brought by League against Jones and the other plaintiffs in error. League averred himself to be a citizen of Maryland, in his original petition, or declaration, and claimed title to a tract of land in the county of Refugio, on St, Joseph’s Island, in the- State of Texas. . ‘League claimed under a deed made to him on the 11th of May, 1850, by one John Power, a citizen of Texas, acting for himself and Hewetson and the representatives…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLBAN
delivered the opinion of the court."
-■ This is a writ of error to the district court of the United States of the .district of Texas.. The- plaintiff filed his petition in the' district ¡court, alleging that hé was seized in fee of a certain tract of land in the county of Refugio, on St. Joseph’s island^ in the State of Texas; beginning;-on said island, at the point nearest -the Aransas bar; thence in a northeasterly directipn with the sea-shore to the inlet from the sea into the bay ;■ thence north forty-five degrees west to the shore of the bay or lagoon; thence, with the meanders of the…
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