Legal Opinion
Cunningham v. San Saba County
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 23, 1892No. 25PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEY, Associate Justice.
This suit was instituted by appellants, as plaintiffs, on the 9th day of August, 1888, to recover damages against appellee, San Saba County, for an alleged unlawful appropriation of a strip of land for a public road, extending across a league and labor of land owned by appellants.
Appellee pleaded title by prescription, and the two years statute of limitations was pleaded as a bar to appellants’ claim for damages.
The appellants Mrs. S. A. Callahan and Mrs. Addie E. Leverett pleaded coverture in avoidance of the pleas of limitation and prescription, and appellant F. C.…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- State v. MitchellSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- Nance v. McClellanTexas Supreme Court · 1936
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