Jones v. Montes
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. The first page of the instrument was written on paper stamped for the year 1821 only; the balance • was stamped for the years 1832 and 1833. The date of the instrument was 1833.
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
We have regarded every point presented to our consideration in this case as settled by previous decisions of this Court, excepting the single one, that the title extended to Montes does not appear to be upon paper of the proper stamp. We believe that the principle decided in the case of the Heirs of Nestor Clay v. Holbert, the last Term of this Court at Galveston, must be decisive of this point. In that case, after an examination of all the Spanish authorities accessible, we ruled that the grant having been executed with *352the assistance of but one witness, did not make it a nullity, but that…
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