Vineyard v. O'Connor
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Aransas County. The suit was brought by Lillian Vineyard to recover from O’Connor certain lands which she claimed by conveyance from S. C. Vineyard to S. H. Vineyard (the deed copied in the opinion), and by the latter to plaintiff. Defendant had judgment and plaintiff appealed and then obtained writ of error from a judgment affirming that of the District Court. The opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This was an action of trespass to try title brought by Lillian Vineyard, a minor, who sued by her guardians, to recover of Dennis M. O’Connor, the defendant in error, certain tracts of land. The defendant, in an amended answer, disclaimed as to some of the tracts sued for, but pleaded not guilty and set up title as to the others.
There was a judgment for the defendant for the lands claimed by him in his answer, which judgment was affirmed in the Court of Civil Appeals.
Upon the trial the plaintiff introduced in evidence patents to one James W. Byrne for six of the tracts…
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