Middlesworth v. Houston Oil Co. of Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. Action at law by 'Caroline C. Middlesworth and others against the Houston Oil Company of Texas and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. Action at law by 'Caroline C. Middlesworth and others against the Houston Oil Company of Texas and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error. This action was brought by plaintiffs in error March 9, 1006, in the ordinary form of trespass to try title against the Houston Oil Company of Texas, and various other defendants, for the recovery of a league and labor of land in Hardin county patented by tlie Governor of Texas to the heirs of George Brown on September 7, 1860. On the trial before…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The plaintiffs in error, plaintiffs below, were entitled to recover the land in controversy as against the Houston Oil Company, unless said company established its title; and the question before us is whether on the trial the Houston Oil Company proved by undisputed evidence its title to the land in controversy through mesne conveyances from the heirs of George Brown.
The basis of the claimed title is a sheriff’s deed dated September 4, 1878, in support of which no record evidence of judgment and execution thereon were produced; but, the court records having…
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