Airhart v. Massieu
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This is an action of trespass to try title to land, being equivalent, in Texas, to an action of ejectment. The defendants in error were the plaintiffs below, and judgment being given in their favor, the case is brought here by writ of error. The petition in the action was filed on the 3d of June, 1872, and sets out that the plaintiffs are citizens of the Republic of Mexico, residing in the city of Mexico, and that on the 1st of July, 1869, they were seised in fee and possessed of a certain tract of land (containing eleven leagues), situated in the counties of Anderson and Freestone, on the…
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