Frost v. Wolf
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before Hon. A. S. Walker.
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
—This is an action of trespass to try title to one-third of two-thirds of a league and labor of land patented to Herman Aiken on January 5,1847. Plaintiffs are the widow of Samuel Frost, to whom he was married in 1861, and their children, and his children by a former wife. The foundation of their claim is a transfer of a one-third interest in the certificate by virtue of which the land was granted, made to Frost by Aiken on February 21,1839. That transfer was made by an endorsement on the certificate and by a more formal conveyance, both of the same date. The…
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