Blassingame v. Davis
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Ellis. Tried below before J. W. Ferris, Esq,, Special Judge. The first assignment of error referred to in the opinion is as follows: “First. The court erred in not charging the law of the case as developed by the evidence.” The third assignment was as follows: “ Third. The court erred in refusing the four special charges asked for by defendant, filed September 15, 1885.”
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
The matter in controversy in this case is the location of the division line between two tracts of land, one of forty-three and four-tenths acres, owned by Blassingame, and the other of two hundred and two and six-tenths acres belonging to the appellee. Both these tracts at one time belonged to Mrs. Francis Ann Lacey, and formed one tract of two hundred and forty-six acres. On August 13, 1860, she conveyed the first named tract to Mary H. Arnold, and by mesne conveyances it became the property of Blassingame in 1866. Mrs. Lacey’s deed to Mary Arnold described the land…
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