Linn v. Scott
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Jackson County. This is an action to try title. The snit was instituted by the appellee on the 21st of March, 1839, in the county of Victoria, and was subsequently removed to the county of Jackson by change of venue.
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— Appeal from Jackson County. This is an action to try title. The snit was instituted by the appellee on the 21st of March, 1839, in the county of Victoria, and was subsequently removed to the county of Jackson by change of venue. The appellee claims title under an augmentation certificate granted to him on the 19th of January, 1838, by- the board of land commissioners of Jackson county, and a survey made under that certificate by the surveyor of that county on the 10th of February, 1838. He sets out in his petition the boundaries of his survey, on the bank of the Lavaca river, “ situated and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court delivered by
Mr. Justice Lipscomb.
This was a suit brought by the. appellee to try title, and to-recover three-quarters' of a league and a labor of land in the county of Yictoria. The venue was afterwards changed to the county of Jackson.
The plaintiff in the court below claimed title under an augmentation certificate, for three-quarters of a league and a labor, in consequence of his marriage. His certificate bore date January 19,1838. The land in controversy was located and surveyed by the surveyor for the county of Jackson, 10th February, 1838. The same certificate was…
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