Thompson v. Cragg
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. Edward H. Von tress. This was a suit of trespass to try title, and for a partition, by Martha J. Gragg and her husband, and Eliza Holder, the widow of William Holder, against W. D. Thompson, Freeman, James K., Benjamin F., and Moses Smalley, Aaron Rubel, .Thomas Bacon, and others.
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Appeal from Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. Edward H. Von tress. This was a suit of trespass to try title, and for a partition, by Martha J. Gragg and her husband, and Eliza Holder, the widow of William Holder, against W. D. Thompson, Freeman, James K., Benjamin F., and Moses Smalley, Aaron Rubel, .Thomas Bacon, and others. There was a judgment against the plaintiffs, in favor of the Smalleys, Rubel and Bacon, on the plea of the statute of limitations, and in their favor against Thompson and the other defendants. The plaintiffs moved for a new trial, as against the defendants, in…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
I will state, as preliminary matter, a few of the leading facts of this case, that the opinion may be the more easily understood.
Prior A. Holder emigrated to Texas in the year 1833. He was a married man, and received a grant of a league and labor of land, as a colonist. The league of land was located on Brushy creek, by Thomas Kinney, who received one-half of it, for locating, surveying, &e. Julia Holder, the wife of Prior A. Holder, died in December, 1836, leaving two children, William Holder, who was born in October, 1832, and Martha Jane, (now Mrs. Cragg,) who was born in December, 1835.
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