Glasscock v. Hughes
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. The Willis Donahoe, Jr., league and labor was located in Williamson county in two tracts, one on Brushy creek and one on Donahoe creek; both tracts were surveyed in 1853, and subsequently patented in the name of G. W. Glasscock, assignee of Donahoe. The A. L. Eaves league was located in Williamson, Milam, Comanche and Callahan counties, and also patented to G. W. Glasscock, assignee of Eaves.
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Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. The Willis Donahoe, Jr., league and labor was located in Williamson county in two tracts, one on Brushy creek and one on Donahoe creek; both tracts were surveyed in 1853, and subsequently patented in the name of G. W. Glasscock, assignee of Donahoe. The A. L. Eaves league was located in Williamson, Milam, Comanche and Callahan counties, and also patented to G. W. Glasscock, assignee of Eaves. In 1839 Glasscock, joined with one T. B. Huling, conveyed to Henry Millard one-half of the Donahoe league and labor certificate, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Quinan, J. Com. App.
There was no error committed in refusing to change the venue of the suit.
The reasons set out in the motion for change of venue are “that the presiding judge has been connected as counsel at one period in all the matters, or a portion of them, in litigation in this suit; ” and in the amended motion, “ that in addition to the connection of the presiding judge as counsel in the case when the decree in Talbot v. Millard was rendered, he also acted as attorney for Jos. W. Talbot, one of the owners of a part of the Donahoe league, . . and as such attorney filed a protest in the…
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