Underwood v. King
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Jones County. Mrs. King sued Underwood and others in trespass to try title, and appealed from a judgment for defendants. It was reversed and rendered in her favor, whereupon appellees obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
Mrs. King brought this action in trespass to try title to recover of Underwood and others a tract of 223 acres of land in Jones County. The District Court decided against her, and its judgment was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals and judgment rendered in her favor.
The conflict of claims of the parties arose in their efforts to buy the land from the State under section 8 of the law of 1905 (Laws 29th Leg., 165). The tract, prior to the incipiency of the controversy, was vacant land, the vacancy, however, not being disclosed .by the 'maps in use in the Land Office on February 23, 1900. It…
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