Cavanaugh v. Peterson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lamar. . Tried below before the Hon. Robert Taylor. This suit was brought at the Fall Term, 1868, of the District Court of Lamar county, by Peterson, against James Walker and John Finch, to try title to'a tract of 575 acres of land. Walker and Finch were tenants under Cavanaugh, (appellant’s intestate,) and at the October Term, 1868, on a suggestion of that fact, Cavanaugh was permitted to appear and defend.
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Appeal from Lamar. . Tried below before the Hon. Robert Taylor. This suit was brought at the Fall Term, 1868, of the District Court of Lamar county, by Peterson, against James Walker and John Finch, to try title to'a tract of 575 acres of land. Walker and Finch were tenants under Cavanaugh, (appellant’s intestate,) and at the October Term, 1868, on a suggestion of that fact, Cavanaugh was permitted to appear and defend. It was admitted by all, that until the 10th of September, 1860, the title to the land was in Cavanaugh. On that day, Cavanaugh and wife conveyed the land, with some…
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chief Justice.
Appellee Peterson brought a suit of trespass to try title for 575 acres of land in Lamar county ’against two persons in possession, and appellant John Cavar, naugh, as administrator of the estate of C. M. Cavanaugh, intervened, as their landlord, and made a defense to the action, as the defendant, claiming the land for the estate. A verdict and judgment were rendered for the appellee Peterson.
The title of Peterson, as adduced in evidence, was as follows : a deed from C. M. Cavanaugh and wife, for the land, on the 10th day of September, 1860, to Campbell; a mortgage on…
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