Walker v. Hanks

This was an action by Walker, the appellant, on the covenants of warranty in .a deed executed to him, by the ap*536pellee, Hanks, on the 19th of Dec., 1853, for two hundred and five acres of land, described in said deed as a part of the headright' league of Jose Garcia. The title to said Garcia, under which the appellee claimed, was issued after the closing of the land office by the act of the consultation, on the 13th of November, 1835, and was consequently null and void. And on the 2d of January, 1858, a patent was granted by the State to one William R. Goode, which covered the land sold by…