Devine v. Keller
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris. Tried below before Hon. James Masterson. This was an action of trespass to try title. The testimony to title in the plaintiff held by the court insufficient is set out in the opinion, as also is the description1 of the land set out in the judgment appealed from. Gillespie, a witness, testified among other things: “I was county surveyor at the time, and laid out the John Brashear addition, and made a map of the John Brashear addition.
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Appeal from Harris. Tried below before Hon. James Masterson. This was an action of trespass to try title. The testimony to title in the plaintiff held by the court insufficient is set out in the opinion, as also is the description1 of the land set out in the judgment appealed from. Gillespie, a witness, testified among other things: “I was county surveyor at the time, and laid out the John Brashear addition, and made a map of the John Brashear addition. The map here in my hands is the original map, or an exact copy of the same, that represents the John Brashear addition. I have made some…
1Opinion of the Court
Henry, Associate Justice.—
This is an action of trespass to try title. The petition describes the land sued for as being lot No. 5 of the Hollingsworth survey in the John Austin original grant, north of Buffalo Bayou in Harris County, “Beginning on the north line of said lot No. 5 140 feet from its northwest corner at a point where the east line of block No. 13 of the John Brashear addition touches the north line of said lot No. 5; thence south 56 feet for a corner; thence in a westwardly direction to a point on the west line of said lot No. 5 15 feet south of the northwest corner of said lot…
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