Baldwin v. Goldfrank
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from Bexar County. Chief Justice James, having been of counsel, did not sit in the case in the Court of Civil Appeals. The opinion gives a sufficient statement.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
—This suit was brought by Cora C. Hutchings, joined by her husband, to recover of M. Goldfrank, Simon Lavenburg, Louis Lavenburg, and A. B. Frank an undivided one-half interest in a tract of twenty-eight leagues and ten labors of land originally granted by the King of Spain to Antonio Rivas, and patented by the State of" Texas to his heirs, by virtue of a Special Act of the Legislature.
The plaintiff Mrs. Hutchings claimed title through two deeds executed to W. L. Cazneau, one in 1850 and the other in 1852. The evidence showed, that at the date of these deeds Cazneau was…
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