Houston v. Starr
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Nacogdoches. Action of tresspass to try title by plaintiff in error against defendant in error. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Motion by plaintiff for new trial; granted on payment of costs, and judgment for the costs against the plaintiff and his surety. Plaintiff declined to accept of the new trial on the terms imposed, and prosecuted this writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
Wheeler J.
This case was submitted on briefs, or written arguments at a former Term of the Court. The only question discussed in the argument of the plaintiff’s counsel, and that which was treated by counsel for the defendant as the question which must control the decision of the case, was the question of the validity of plaintiff’s title. A case was then depending in another branch of the Court, the decision of which it was thought would settle the question, on which it was understood from the argument of counsel, the validity of the title relied on by the plaintiff in this case depended. And…
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