Houston v. Blythe
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Hopkins. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. This case was last before this court on an appeal by the present defendant in error, and was reversed.
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Error from Hopkins. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. This case was last before this court on an appeal by the present defendant in error, and was reversed. The plaintiffs in error claimed that the land in controversy was granted by the state of Coahuila and Texas to Lovick P. Dikes, and attempted to make out title in Lovick P. Dikes, by introducing in evidence a certified translated copy, from the general land office, of a title granted him by George W. Smyth, commissioner. It showed that on the 15th September, 1835, upon the petition of Dikes, the commissioner ordered a survey to…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
This case has already been twice before this court. See Ury v. Houston, 36 Tex., 265, and Blythe v. Houston, 46 Tex., 65.
*510Time will not now permit of an extended examination, at length, of all of the numerous errors complained of, or allow a discussion, or even a partial consideration, of the many propositions announced and presented as growing out of the errors assigned.
The court ruled correctly in allowing the evidence, and the accompanying translations, of both the witnesses Whiting and Brown to be read to the jury.
The action, however, of the judge on the question of…
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