Hawkins v. Stiles
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Ellis County; C. M. Smithdeal, Judge. Action by Sam Stiles ‘ and others against Frank Hawkins and another. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
The land in controversy herein was within the Mississippi and Pacific Railroad reservation, and lies near Midlothian in Ellis county, consisting of two surveys of 160 acres each, patented to George Stiles, one as the assignee of J. T., and the other as the as-signee of W. W. Rawls, by virtue of his having purchased whatever ¿rights the said Rawlses may have been entitled to as actual settlers thereon under the act of August 26, 1856, opening up said reservation to settlement, and the payment by him of the stipulated amount due the state. We think the evidence is sufficient to show that both…
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