Clark v. Nolan & Campbell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grimes. Tried below before the Hon. James R. Burnett. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
In 1856 James Nolan purchased from M. J. Duke one hundred and twenty acres of land within the present location of the city of Navasota, and settled upon it, with his wife and one child, as his homestead; In 1859 Nolan and wife deeded to the Houston & Texas *417Central Railroad eighty acres of this land for a depot. About the same time Nolan laid off the remaining forty acres, which was the community property of himself and wife, into lots, blocks, streets and alleys, as a part of the town of Navasota, for the purpose of making sale of the same as town or city property; and, about the same time,…
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