Walters v. Jewett
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Collin. The case was tried before Hon. Hat. M. Burford, one of the district judges. The trial in the District Court was had at the spring term, 1859, and the plaintiffs sued out their writ of error in December of the same year. Away hack previous to 1835, (it does not appear just when,) Hezekiah Walters married Zeruiah, the name of whose father is not given, and, while Texas was yet part of a Mexican State, they emigrated to the country of colonial enterprises.
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Error from Collin. The case was tried before Hon. Hat. M. Burford, one of the district judges. The trial in the District Court was had at the spring term, 1859, and the plaintiffs sued out their writ of error in December of the same year. Away hack previous to 1835, (it does not appear just when,) Hezekiah Walters married Zeruiah, the name of whose father is not given, and, while Texas was yet part of a Mexican State, they emigrated to the country of colonial enterprises. The law which invited them promised to the family a league of land, and this grant, according to the laws governing…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
—This suit was brought by the plaintiffs in error, the children and heirs of Zeruiah Walters, against their father, Hezekiah Walters, and the heirs of John G. Jewett, deceased, to establish title and have partitioned to them one-half of a league 'and labor of land, patented in the year 1845 to said John G. Jewett, on a certificate issued to him on the 27th day of March, 1838, by the board of land commissioners of Bed Biver county, as assignee of said Hezekiah Walters. The plaintiffs aver in their petition that their father and mother, Hezekiah and Zeruiah Walters, were married in the State of…
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