Brownsville v. Cavazos
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Texas
At law. This was an action of trespass to try title [by the city of Brownsville against Maria Josefa Cavazos and others]. The parties waived a jury and submitted the issues of fact as well as of law to the court. [Judgment for defendants.] The lands in controversy were occupied by the city of Brownsville, Texas, opposite Matamoras, Mexico. They had been part of the ejidos, or town tract, of Matamoras, which extended on both sides of the Bio Bravo or Bio Grande.
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At law. This was an action of trespass to try title [by the city of Brownsville against Maria Josefa Cavazos and others]. The parties waived a jury and submitted the issues of fact as well as of law to the court. [Judgment for defendants.] The lands in controversy were occupied by the city of Brownsville, Texas, opposite Matamoras, Mexico. They had been part of the ejidos, or town tract, of Matamoras, which extended on both sides of the Bio Bravo or Bio Grande. Texas chartered the city of Brownsville in 1852, and granted to-it these lands, claiming them as part of the-public domain. This…
1Opinion of the Court
BRADLEY, Circuit Justice.
The property in question is within the boundary lines of a tract of fifty-nine and one-half leagues called the Espíritu Santo tract, granted by the Spanish government to one De la Garza in 1781, which grant was recognized by the legislature of the state of Texas, by the “act to relinquish the right of the state to certain lands therein named,” approved February 10, 1852. It is conceded by both parties that for several years prior and up to the year 1826, one Dona Maria Francisca Cavazos was seized of the Espíritu Santo tract (including the lands in dispute) by regular…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hart v. BurnettCalifornia Supreme Court · 1860
- Houston v. Administrator of RobertsonTexas Supreme Court · 1847
- Bass v. FontleroyTexas Supreme Court · 1854
- Brownsville v. CavazosSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
3Cited by1 opinion
- Brownsville v. CavazosSupreme Court of the United States · 1879