Ayers v. Harris
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Bimes. This suit was brought by the appellant to recover of the defendants the land described in his petition, originally granted in 1833 by the Mexican government to Maximo Moreno, as eleven leagues situated in Bell county, of which appellant alleged he was the owner.
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Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Bimes. This suit was brought by the appellant to recover of the defendants the land described in his petition, originally granted in 1833 by the Mexican government to Maximo Moreno, as eleven leagues situated in Bell county, of which appellant alleged he was the owner. The appellees claimed title in hostility to the boundaries of the Moreno grant as alleged by the appellant, and they set forth specifically the several tracts by them claimed respectively by virtue of locations, surveys and patents, junior to the Moreno grant, and asked…
1Opinion of the Court
L. J. Farrar, Special Judge.
This was an action of trespass to try title instituted by the appellant on May 10, 1881, against the appellees. The appellant deraigns his title from the state of Coahuila and Texas, under a grant to eleven leagues of land issued to Maximo Moreno on the 8th of October, 1833, and now situated *298in Bell county. The several defendants claimed title by virtue of junior locations and grants; and in addition to their pleas of “not guilty ” they severally pleaded their titles specially, and claimed distinct and separate tracts of land described in their answers…
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