Cavit v. Archer
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Milam. Tried below before the Hon. Spencer Dord. Daniel Cavit brought this suit against J. P. Archer and others, defendants below, in the District Court of Milam county, to the September Term, 1872, in trespass to try title, to recover possession of a league of land patented to George W. Glasscock, assignee of William Pharas, situated in Milam county, describing the land by metes and bounds, and claiming title to and possession of the same on the 20th of March,…
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Appeal from Milam. Tried below before the Hon. Spencer Dord. Daniel Cavit brought this suit against J. P. Archer and others, defendants below, in the District Court of Milam county, to the September Term, 1872, in trespass to try title, to recover possession of a league of land patented to George W. Glasscock, assignee of William Pharas, situated in Milam county, describing the land by metes and bounds, and claiming title to and possession of the same on the 20th of March, 1870, when defendants entered and dispossessed them. Prior to the January Term of the court, 1873, the defendants below…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
This was an action of trespass to try title for a league of land situated in Milam county, patented to George W. Glasscock, brought by the plaintiff and appellant, Daniel Cavit, against the appellees, J. P. Archer and others. .
Judgment was rendered against the plaintiff) from which he prosecuted this appeal.
The plaintiff) in his pleadings, specially deraigned his title to the land in controversy, a necessary link in which was a deed from the patentee (Glasscock) to one Desmond.
Having made, as he contends, proper affidavit of the loss of this original deed, he offered…
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