Ledyard v. Brown
Texas Supreme Court
Ebbob from Fayette. Tried below before the Hon. T. C. Barden. This case was formerly before the Supreme Court, and reported in the" 28th Volume of Texas Beports, page 393, to which reference is made for a statement of the case. The plaintiffs below again obtained judgment, and defendant, Ledyard, alone prosecutes writ of error to this court. The questions presented by the record were decided when the case was before the court on appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This case certainly ought not to be before the court at this time. Every question presented by this record'was decided in the same case, and is reported in 28 Texas, 393.
The opinion of the court, delivered by Mr. Justice Moore, is very able, and decides every point in the case. For abundant reasons it gave the Cottle grant priority over the Bichards grant, establishing the rights of those claiming under the former as against those claiming under the latter.
The fact that the Cottle grant was made to one .of De*403Witt’s colonists, partly within the limits of Austin & Williams’ colony, is fully…
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