Huff v. Webb
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Hill. Tried below before the Hon. Jo Abbott. Suit brought by Webb against the plaintiff in error to recover land, described in the petition as it was in the deed offered, which will be seen in the opinion. The defendant’s pleading consisted in a general demurrer, general denial and plea of not guilty.
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Error from Hill. Tried below before the Hon. Jo Abbott. Suit brought by Webb against the plaintiff in error to recover land, described in the petition as it was in the deed offered, which will be seen in the opinion. The defendant’s pleading consisted in a general demurrer, general denial and plea of not guilty. Ho objection was made to the manifest misdescription of the land contained in the call, to begin the survey on the north line of a survey of which the tract formed a part, until the deed was offered in evidence. The certificate of acknowledgment, held defective, will be found in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
The description of the land sued for, as given in the petition, was defective in that the third call does not give the course of the line, but this would be corrected by the succeeding call, which gives the course and length of the fourth line, from which, in connection with the other lines called for, is given the course of the third line.
It appears also that the call for the beginning corner of the tract of land in controversy, on the north line of the Merriwether survey, of which it is a part, is erroneous, but this matter was not called to the attention of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Buell v. IrwinMichigan Supreme Court · 1871
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- Echols v. Jacobs Mercantile Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1905
- Heintz v. O'DonnellCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1897
- Sheldon v. FarinacciCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1976
- Threadgill v. BickerstaffCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1894
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