Frost v. Erath Cattle Co.

TARLTON, Judge, Section B.

This suit was instituted in form of trespass to try title by appellee against appellant on December 29, 1885, in tiie District Court of Hood County, to recover the W. R. Martin 640 acres survey in that county. After the patent appellee’s title consisted of consecutive transfers to himself, the first of these trans fers being a letter of attorney from Richard B. Kimball, the patentee of the land, to Richard Kimball, together with a deed thereunder executed by the attorney in fact, Richard Kimball, to Rebecca De Cordova, embracing • a number of surveys in Hood and…