Ryle v. Davidson
Texas Supreme Court
Question certified from the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Jefferson County.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This case is presented by a certificate from the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District in which two questions, with the facts out of which they arise, are stated for decision.
The controversy is over a half of the league of land in Jefferson County originally granted to Manuel Chirino under whom all parties claim. Chirino executed two conveyances of the league, one on September 15, 1835, to Juan Lepliclier, Avhich was not recorded until February 15, 1847, and the other on January 9, 1846, to Arnold Thouvenin, containing a recital of the payment by Thouvenin and the receipt by Chirino…
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