Leach v. Dodson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cooke. Tried below before the Hon. D. E. Barrett, Special Judge. Suit was filed in the district court of Cooke county by appellee, alleging that the plaintiff was the owner of lot Ho. 5, in block Ho. 9, in Hahn’s addition to the city of Gainesville, claiming under a regular chain of transfers from the defendant, Cyrena Leach, formerly Cyrena Rowland.
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Appeal from Cooke. Tried below before the Hon. D. E. Barrett, Special Judge. Suit was filed in the district court of Cooke county by appellee, alleging that the plaintiff was the owner of lot Ho. 5, in block Ho. 9, in Hahn’s addition to the city of Gainesville, claiming under a regular chain of transfers from the defendant, Cyrena Leach, formerly Cyrena Rowland. That on the 9th daj*- of February, 1863, the defendant, Cyrena Leach, being seized and possessed of about four hundred acres of land, situated in and adjoining the city of Gainesville, and being the same land on which is situated the…
1Opinion of the Court
Delany, J. Com. App.
One of the links in the plaintiff’s chain of title was a deed from Wm. Peevy to-Hale, dated October 2, 1871.
This was followed by a deed from oneC. P. Hale to Jasper Fields, dated September 19, 1872.
The defendants objected to the deed to-Hale, because it did not show who was intended as the grantee. This was overruled.
When the testimony was all in, the defendants moved the court to strike out the deed to — Hale, because the evidence did not show that he was the same person who afterwards, under the name of C. P. Hale, executed the deed to Jasper Fields.
This motion was…
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