Cox v. Cock
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Falls. Tried below before the Hon. Jo Abbott. Suit by appellee against J. M. Cox et al. to recover land. Plaintiff offered as a muniment of title a patent to Benj. H. Abell.
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Appeal from Falls. Tried below before the Hon. Jo Abbott. Suit by appellee against J. M. Cox et al. to recover land. Plaintiff offered as a muniment of title a patent to Benj. H. Abell. It appeared from the certificate of the commissioner of the general land office, from his register of second class headrights, that certificate Ho. 58 was issued to Benjamin H. Abell by the board of land commissioners of Harris county; that four million eight hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three square varas were located in Milam district, on the north fork of Deer creek; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.—
The case has been carefully considered, but as it presents no new questions for determination, and the result reached is believed to be correct, it is not deemed necessary to discuss at any length the different grounds of error that have been assigned.
The land located and surveyed by virtue of the certificate was sufficiently identified as the same land embraced in the patent that was offered in evidence. The doubt (if it could be said to be one) .arose from the failure of the proper authorities in issuing the patent to state by way of recital, as should always be…
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