Emanuel v. Gates
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. At Law. Action of trespass to try title brought by Albert Emanuel and others against John (1. Grates and others. Verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs bring error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. At Law. Action of trespass to try title brought by Albert Emanuel and others against John (1. Grates and others. Verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs bring error. Statement by PAEDEE, Circuit Judge: This is an action of trespass to try title, and for damages, as to the Guadalupe Sosa survey of land, being Abstract 42, Trinity county, Tex., against the defendants in error, in the form provided by the statute of the state of Texas. The petition describes the land, contains allegations as to title…
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge,
(after stating the facts.) The only ruling in the court below on the trial of the case while the jury were at the bar to which seasonable objection was made, and exception taken,, was the admission of a certified copy from the records of Cherokee county, Tex., of a deed from Joseph Hertz to Jacob Snively, conveying the land in controversy, dated August 5, 1835, and purporting to have been duly recorded in Trinity county, state of Texas, on the 2d of July, 1856, and in Cherokee county, state of Texas, on the 15th of July, 1856, which deed plaintiffs have attacked as a…
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