Emory v. Bailey
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District in an appeal from Harris County. Emory and others sued Bailey and others for the recovery of land. The trial court excluded evidence offered by plaintiffs and directed a verdict for defendants. Plaintiffs appealed and on affirmance of .the judgment (181 S. W., 831) obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
Plaintiffs in error brought an action against defendants in error to try the title to 640 acres of land in Montgomery County, being section 11, patented by the State of Texas to the Washington County Railroad Company.
Plaintiffs in error, having introduced in evidence a patent to the land from the State to the Washington County Railroad Company, or its assigns, dated April 3, 1877, offered in evidence a certified copy of a deed, dated March 7, 1862, to the land certificate on which the patent issued, from the Washington County Railroad Company to G. R. Healy, which was signed by “J. W. McDade,…
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