Lasater v. Van Hook
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Archer. Tried below before Hon. P. M. Stine. The appellees J. H. Van Hook and V. A. Van Hook instituted this suit in the District Court of Archer County on the 5th day of October, 1886, against the appellants J. D. Lasater and T. M. Coulson, to recover of them 160 acres of land, described by metes and bounds, and being a divided part of a tract of 640 acres of land situated in Archer County, Texas, and granted to Matthew Pickens.
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Appeal from Archer. Tried below before Hon. P. M. Stine. The appellees J. H. Van Hook and V. A. Van Hook instituted this suit in the District Court of Archer County on the 5th day of October, 1886, against the appellants J. D. Lasater and T. M. Coulson, to recover of them 160 acres of land, described by metes and bounds, and being a divided part of a tract of 640 acres of land situated in Archer County, Texas, and granted to Matthew Pickens. The original petition contained the usual averments in trespass to try title. To this petition both defendants filed pleas of not guilty. In a…
1Opinion of the Court
ACKER, Presiding Judge.—
J. H. Van Hook and V. A. Van Hook, his wife, brought this suit October 5, 1886, against J. D. Lasater and T. M. Coulson in trespass to try title to 160 acres of land out of the northeast corner of the Matthew Pickens 640-acre survey.
Both defendants answered by plea of not guilty. By supplemental petition, filed August 29, 1887, plaintiffs alleged that on the 1st day of June, 1882, defendant Coulson, joined by W. B. Hutchison, entered upon the land sued for as tenants of plaintiffs under a written agreement of lease, by the terms of which Coulson and Hutchison agreed to…
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