Porter v. Holt
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bosque. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. The agreement of counsel and the affidavit submitted in support of the motion to set it aside are given.
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Appeal from Bosque. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. The agreement of counsel and the affidavit submitted in support of the motion to set it aside are given. The agreement bore date June 15,1884, and was “That the plaintiff J. M. Holt has a good and sufficient legal title to the A. B. King 640 acres survey of land as per field notes in the patent; and that the defendants have a good and sufficient legal title to the John Hensley 640 acres survey as per field notes in the patent, both located on head of Steel ■Creek, in Bosque County, Texas. “And that the only question in this suit is the…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.—
low by appellee to recover of appellants a strip of land, and involved the question of the true location of the boundary line between the A. B. King and the John Hensley surveys. The plaintiff claimed under the former and the appellees under the latter survey. After the institution of the suit on the 14th day of January, 1884, an agreement in writing was signed by the attorneys for the respective parties, and was filed among the papers in the cause the next day. The terms of the agreement were in substance that the plaintiff had title to the land embraced in the…
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