Ellis v. Batts

This suit was commenced by Albert Wells in July, 1846, against Henry D. Bullard, as administrator of E. Batts, Hardy Strickland and Albert A. Kelson, the district surveyor of Nacogdoches land district, to enjoin said parties from returning to the General Land Office the field notes of a survey of six hundred and forty acres of land situated in the present county of Smith, made by virtue of the headright certificate of said Strickland for said Batts; and to establish plaintiff’s superior right to the survey, upon which, it was alleged, he then resided. The injunction prayed for in the petition…