Browning v. Pumphrey

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

The land in controversy was patented to J. S. Calvert on December 15, 1855, as assignee of a land certificate originally issued to Gabriel Martinez, of which Philip Dimmitt became the owner. In the partition of his estate the land certificate was set apart to three of his minor children, and under proper order of the Probate Court it was sold in January, 1852, to J. S. Calvert, who was then the administrator of the estate of L. Smithers, deceased, in course of administration in Bexar County.

It is claimed that J. S. Calvert bought the certificate for the estate of…