Gerald v. Freeman
Texas Supreme Court
Error from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Rimes. This suit was instituted by defendants in error to recover two different tracts of land.
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Error from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Rimes. This suit was instituted by defendants in error to recover two different tracts of land. The first tract contained two hundred and forty-nine acres and was patented to the heirs of Benjamin G. Wallace, October 16, 1871. The second tract contained sixty-six acres, title to which, issued from the State October 19, 1882. It was admitted on the trial by plaintiffs in error that D. G. Freeman acquired the two hundred and forty-nine acres from the heirs of Benjamin O. Wallace, and conveyed to his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Freeman, an undivided…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.
The main question for decision in this case was determined by this court in the case of Freeman v. Gerald, reported in 2 Texas Law Journal, page 744. The parties to this cause were in that case, as in this, contending as to the true location of the east boundary line of the Maxwell grant, and this court fixed it by the course and distance called for from its beginning corner, and not by the west boundary of the Chambers survey, with which it purported to run. The west line of the Chambers was wholly within the prairie, without natural or artificial objects by which it…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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