Welder v. Carroll
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Victoria. The ease was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. The record had one hundred and twenty-five pages, which include six maps, embracing the locus in quo and the surrounding country.
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Appeal from Victoria. The ease was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. The record had one hundred and twenty-five pages, which include six maps, embracing the locus in quo and the surrounding country. The argument of Judge Robert Hughes for the appellants was, perhaps, the last effort of the well-stored legal mind of a man who had given his whole life to the study of the law, and the last twenty years exclusively to the practice in cases involving Texas land titles. But the Reporter finds it impossible to insert it, in consequence of its great length and the…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
If the original grants, or so much of them as is contained in the present record, are to be regarded as appellant’s only evidence of title, it is very evident that there would be no sufficient ground for a reversal of the judgment. Standing alone, and unsupported by the production of the maps, or secondary evidence to supply their place, referred to by the commissioner and made a part of the grants for the identity and description of the land, we think, beyond dispute, the objection made by appellee to these grants, that they were v.oid for uncertainty, should have been sustained. The only…
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