Quinlan v. Houston & Texas Central Railway Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Third District, in an appeal from Travis County. The opinion fully states the ease.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The defendant in error, the H. & T. C. Ry. Co., brought this suit to recover of the plaintiff in error, Quinlan, five sections of land which had been located and surveyed by virtue of certificates issued to the Waco and Northwestern Railroad Company. The defendant in the trial court claimed title to five other sections which had been located and patented by virtue of other certificates and disclaimed as to any land sued for by plaintiff that was not embraced in such patented surveys. The trial developed a question of the legality of the survey as well as a question of…
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