Lewis v. Cole
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Olay. Tried below before the Hon. B. F. Williams.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought May 14, 1880, by the appellants to secure a tract of land which was patented to John A. Greer on the 1st day of April, 1856.
On the 26th day of January, 1852, John A. Greer executed a bond for title to James W. Flanigan, by which he obligated himself, when Flanigan obtained a patent upon a certificate named in the bond, and the same upon which the land in controversy was patented, to convey one-half of the land thus obtained to Flanigan.
On the "10th of October, 1854, Flanigan conveyed to Charles Lewis thirteen hundred acres of the land…
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