Jenkins v. Chambers
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Bastrop. The plaintiff in error brought suit against one Walker and anoihiT to recover the possession of a tract of laud. The defendant in error, Chambers, intervened, claiming' to be the rightful owner of the land, and was p-cuihied to definid. The facts of the case were as follows : The plain! iff offered in evidence the contract entered into by Benjamin it.
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Error from Bastrop. The plaintiff in error brought suit against one Walker and anoihiT to recover the possession of a tract of laud. The defendant in error, Chambers, intervened, claiming' to be the rightful owner of the land, and was p-cuihied to definid. The facts of the case were as follows : The plain! iff offered in evidence the contract entered into by Benjamin it. Milam with the, government of Coahnila and Texas on the T2th day of January, 182(5, to colonize three hundred families above the San Antonio road, on the west side of tin: Colorado river, to the introduction of which (lie…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
It does not appear that Haggard received any concession- or other evidence of right to (lie land lie claimed previous to the date of the title issued to him by Talbot Chambers in 1835. Ilis having settled upon and cultivated the land, without having be,on placed in possession by the proper authority, or having received any evidence of right to it, gave him no title, legal or equitable, wliieh can be recognized in a court of justice. Even a survey without a concession or order of survey would not be a legal appropriation of the laud. (Howard and Wife v. Perry, 7 Tex. R.; Smith v. The United…
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