Secrest's Executors v. Jones
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lavaca. The case was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. The written documents and much of the evidence will be found in the former report of this case. (21 Tex., 121.) The general facts are as follows: The land in controversy is situated in Colorado county, on the west bank of Colorado river, above and adjoining the town of Columbia.
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Appeal from Lavaca. The case was tried before Hon. Fielding Jones, one of the district judges. The written documents and much of the evidence will be found in the former report of this case. (21 Tex., 121.) The general facts are as follows: The land in controversy is situated in Colorado county, on the west bank of Colorado river, above and adjoining the town of Columbia. On 16 August, 1824, the title to one league and labor (including the land in controversy) was completed to Elizabeth Tumlinson. The grantee died, leaving six heirs and their representatives. On 19 December, 1833, the league…
1Opinion of the CourtHamilton, J.
This case is now here, for the second time, on appeal from a judgment rendered in the district court of Lavaca county. When it was here before it was brought by appeal from the county of Fayette by the present appellant, and was decided by Chief Justice Wheeler, at the Galveston term, 1858, and reported in 21 Texas, p. 121. The clear and comprehensive view of the questions involved in the case, presented in the opinion *603then delivered, leaves this court in this hearing but little labor.
The only error which caused the former reversal by this court was, that in the former trial in the court…
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