Tex. & Pac. Ry. Co. v. Thompson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Taylor. Tried below before the Hon. T. B. Wheeler. The case was tried before the court without a jury. Appellee (plaintiff below) brought suit for the land covered by certificates Bos. 22, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 28, issued to Burr & Caswell, and Bos. 82, 83, 84, issued to the Bast Line and Red River railroad, and 498, issued to the Houston Bast and West Texas railroad.
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Appeal from Taylor. Tried below before the Hon. T. B. Wheeler. The case was tried before the court without a jury. Appellee (plaintiff below) brought suit for the land covered by certificates Bos. 22, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 28, issued to Burr & Caswell, and Bos. 82, 83, 84, issued to the Bast Line and Red River railroad, and 498, issued to the Houston Bast and West Texas railroad. Bach of these land certificates it was alleged entitled Thompson to locate six hundred and forty acres of land for himself and a like quantity for the state. He annexed to his petition the field notes of the different…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
A further examination of the record induces us to believe that the proper disposition of this cause was not made by the judgment heretofore entered upon the report of the commissioners of appeals, and the motion for rehearing will therefore be granted.
In disposing of the ease we will not attempt to follow separately' the assignments of error of the respective parties, but will consider only such questions as are deemed material to the determination of this appeal.
The court below held that the surveys made by Harris in 1878 were in effect upon relocations of the…
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