Nichols v. Stewart
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal and Error from Guadalupe. The marriage bond of Frederick Roe and Sarah Grogan was executed by them before an Alcalde at Gonzales in November, 1832, and was filed by him in his oEce, among the archives of the municipality of Gonzales, and is now on file in the oEce of the Clerk of the County Court of Gonzales county.
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Appeal and Error from Guadalupe. The marriage bond of Frederick Roe and Sarah Grogan was executed by them before an Alcalde at Gonzales in November, 1832, and was filed by him in his oEce, among the archives of the municipality of Gonzales, and is now on file in the oEce of the Clerk of the County Court of Gonzales county. John Sowell died in 1837, after the passage of the Act of the 5th of June of that year, leaving several sons surviving, whose rights were represented in this suit. Roe died in 1837 or 1838. The other facts appear in the Opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLipscomb, J.
This suit was brought by the plaintiff, Rachael Nichols, to recover her share of one league of land granted by the Mexican Government to her deceased husband, John Sow-ell. She alleges that the several persons, named and prayed to be made defendants, have taken possession of portions of the said land under some pretended claim of title.
The defendants answered, setting up title derived from administrator’s sale of the estate of John Sowell, or by title derived from the plaintiff herself. ' Arthur Swift intervened; claimed to be the owner by purchase from Rachael Turner, claiming to be the…
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