Russell's heirs v. Randolph
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Montgomery. This was a suit against the unknown heirs of Edward Bussell; service by publication ; L. L. Bradbury appointed by the Court to represent the defendants; writ of error prosecuted by Bradbury; motion to dismiss writ of error, for want of parties plaintiff in error, and for want of authority in Bradbury to bring the same before this Court. The other facts will be found in the opinion,
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
Edward Russell, the ancestor of the plaintiffs in error, came to Texas some time in 1834, and the 21st day of August, 1835, obtained a grant for one league of land in the present county of Montgomery; and shortly thereafter left for the State of Maine, avowedly for the purpose of bringing out his family to settle upon the land conceded to him ; and shortly after reaching his family in the State of Maine, where they had remained whilst he was in Texas, he died. In 1841 or ’42, Mr. Horton, with his family, his wife being a daughter of Edward Russell, cultivated and made a crop on the land; and…
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