Warren v. Shuman
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Guadalupe. This suit was brought by the appellant against the appellees for the recovery of land. The original certificate issued from the board of land commissioners of San Augustine county, and located and surveyed on the land in controversy, was not approved as'a genuine claim against the Government by the local and traveling board of commissioners appointed under the act to detect fraudulent land certificates, &c., nor was a suit instituted for its…
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Appeal from Guadalupe. This suit was brought by the appellant against the appellees for the recovery of land. The original certificate issued from the board of land commissioners of San Augustine county, and located and surveyed on the land in controversy, was not approved as'a genuine claim against the Government by the local and traveling board of commissioners appointed under the act to detect fraudulent land certificates, &c., nor was a suit instituted for its re-establishment previous to 1st January, 1844. The land was afterwards located and surveyed by virtue of the certificate which is…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
This cause involves important questions. They were fully argued by counsel, and have been considered by the court; but, before announcing the result of our deliberations, an objection fatal to the exercise of tlie revisory jurisdiction has presented itself in the fact that no final judgment was rendered in the court below. The judgment does not show a disposition of the subject-matter of the controversy. It furnishes no evidence of the result of the dispute. There is no sentence pronounced upon the matters contained in the record for one party or the other. There is a verdict…
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