Parker v. Newberry

HOBBY, Presiding Judge,

Section A.—The appellants, who were plaintiffs below, Mrs. Mary Parker, Mrs. M. E. Hale, and W. T. Smith, brought this action of trespass to try title to the land described, against the appellee, D. L. Newberry, on September 3, 1891. The plaintiffs claimed title as the heirs of John P. Smith, the patentee. The land, consisting of 320 acres, was granted by the State by virtue of a bounty land certificate issued to said Smith by the Adjutant-General, J. S. Gillette, through his assignee, Benjamin Graves, on October 2, 1854. The Commissioner of Claims indorsed on the…