Nelson v. King
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. A. W. 0. Hicks. The petition of the plaintiff, Davis King, administrator of the estate of James P. Haynes, deceased, alleged that on the sixth day of June, 1841, the defendant, Albert A. Nelson, then being the county surveyor of Nacogdoches county, as such county surveyor did receive at his office from said Haynes, in his lifetime, two certain pieces of land scrip, numbered 211 and 218 respectively, for 64Q acres of land…
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Appeal from Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. A. W. 0. Hicks. The petition of the plaintiff, Davis King, administrator of the estate of James P. Haynes, deceased, alleged that on the sixth day of June, 1841, the defendant, Albert A. Nelson, then being the county surveyor of Nacogdoches county, as such county surveyor did receive at his office from said Haynes, in his lifetime, two certain pieces of land scrip, numbered 211 and 218 respectively, for 64Q acres of land each ; he, the said Nelson, then and there receiving the same in his then official capacity of county surveyor, and which…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
This suit was instituted by the appellee, as administrator of the estate of one James P. Haynes, to recover from the appellant the value of two pieces of land scrip, which were deposited with the appellant by James P. Haynes m his lifetime. The testimony shows that the land scrip was placed in the hands of Wilson, the appellant, for safe keeping merely. The transfers on the land scrip showed that it was owned by James P. Haynes, and one William P. King, and one W. Y. Lacy. It appears that before the institution of this suit William P. King died, and that after his death, but also before the…
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