Chambers v. Fisk

Willie, S. J.

The plaintiff brought suit in March, 1850, against the defendant Fisk and forty-five other persons. In his petition he alleges that he is the owner, by just title emanating from the Government of Coahuila and Texas, of eight leagues of land; that the defendants, “ associated trespassers,” are in possession of parts of the land; that they have committed various acts of trespass, have fraudulently combined and confederated together to deprive him of his title to the land, and to prevent him from prosecuting his remedy for a recovery of the same, have caused lines to be run and…