Heintz v. O'Donnell

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

Appellants in this suit were defendants below, and claimed the land in controversy as heirs of Edward Cochran, deceased. Appellee,' plaintiff below, claimed the land under conveyance from W. W. Thayer. The title is conceded to have been in Cochran prior to January 31, 1854, and the controverted question in the cáse was, whether or not .Cochran, at or about that time, executed and delivered to Thayer a deed conveying land which included that in controversy. Plaintiff, in order to prove such conveyance, offered in evidence certified copies from the records of Harris,…