Kirby v. Boaz
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District in an appeal from Jones County. Kirby sued Boaz and others for the recovery of land. Defendants having judgment, he appealed, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The plaintiff in error, as plaintiff, sued the defendants in error to recover a tract of 1280 acres of land patented to the heirs of John Wal-1 by virtue of a bounty warrant issued to them in 1840 in consideration of services rendered by him as a soldier of the Republic of Texas.
The titles of the parties depended on the question of fact whether this John Wall was identical with a John Wall, of Hash County, ¡North Carolina, the ancestor of those under whom plaintiff claims, or with a John Wall, of ¡Northampton County, in the same State, the ancestor of those from whom defendants derive title.
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