Casey v. Hanrick
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Falls. Tried below before W. M. Flournoy, Esq., Special Judge. This suit was brought by E. G. Hanrick against Ike Casey in the district court of Falls county on twenty-sixth of October, 1881, to recover fifty acres of land out of the Le Serda eleven league grant, with the rents therewith accruing.
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Appeal from Falls. Tried below before W. M. Flournoy, Esq., Special Judge. This suit was brought by E. G. Hanrick against Ike Casey in the district court of Falls county on twenty-sixth of October, 1881, to recover fifty acres of land out of the Le Serda eleven league grant, with the rents therewith accruing. It appeared that E. G. Hanrick had been in the lawful possession of the land, claiming it, as his own, since the year 1871 or 1873; that he had caused houses to be builded upon it, and put thirty-five or forty acres in cultivation, and that it was worth about one hundred dollars per…
1Opinion of the Court
Maltbie, Judge.
W. A. Graves entered into possession of the land, as the vendee of E. G. Hanrick, under a verbal contract with his agent, G. W. Goodrich. He is not shown to have been deceived or in any manner misled as to the title. He paid, on taking possession, only the sum of one hundred dollars. He is not shown to have ever offered or desired to comply with his contract with Goodrich, neither is he shown to have been in any way damaged by the contract, or to have done anything whatever that would have entitled him to have called on E. G. Han-rick to make title to the land. On the other…
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