Benavides v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Travis County; Geo.-Calhoun, Judge. Suit by the State of Texas and others against Francisca Pena Benavides and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Findings of Fact.
On January 2, 1848, the Governor of Tamaulipas granted to Jesus Benavides two leagues of land, which had been surveyed for him by Canales, the Surveyor General of that state, on April 25, 1835. This grant is known as the Pedernal.
The only field notes or other description of this survey consists of a plat and explanations thereof as follows:
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The figures 40 on the above sketch were intended by Canales to be 400 and mean 400 cuerdas (20,000 vrs.). The figures 100 mean 100 cuerdas (5,000 vrs.). The figures 11 mean 11 cuerdas…
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