Upshur v. Pace

This suit was commenced by a petition against Upshur, the surveyor for Travis Land District, to compel him to survey a tract of land located by the appellee, by a valid land certificate. The land located on, had been located and surveyed under a certificate of headright issued to one Clark, but the field notes not having been returned to the General Land Office by the 31st day of August, 1853, became subject to location. Johns claimed title to the land under a *532tax title, as such titles are usually called, given on a sale of the land for the non-payment of taxes, and also by location of a…