Kuechler v. Wilson
Texas Supreme Court
This was a suit of trespass to try title, brought by Jacob Kuechler, the appellant, in the District Court of Falls County, December 14,1886, against the appellee W. S. G. Wilson, and others. It is a question of boundary. Appellant claimed title to the land in controversy as a part of the Esther Clark survey, which is a junior survey to those surrounding it.
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This was a suit of trespass to try title, brought by Jacob Kuechler, the appellant, in the District Court of Falls County, December 14,1886, against the appellee W. S. G. Wilson, and others. It is a question of boundary. Appellant claimed title to the land in controversy as a part of the Esther Clark survey, which is a junior survey to those surrounding it. The defendant Wilson, to a part of the land in controversy under the James Smith one-third league patent, surveyed July 16, 1839; the defendants Glass, Pratt, and Ruble claimed title to a part of the land in controversy under the W. D.…
1Opinion of the Court
GARRETT, Presiding Judge,
Section B.—Appellant’s first assignment of error relates to the exclusion of the certificates of James Hewlett and G. B. Erath, attached to the sketch of surveys from the Land Office offered in evidence by him, and admitted except as to the certificates, which were excluded on objection by the defendants that they were not competent evidence. The certificate of the Commissioner of the Land Office attached to the sketch was, “that the above is a correct copy of sketch file Ho. 7, Bell County, now on file in this office,” and was admitted with the sketch. Those excluded…
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