Portis v. Hill
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Galveston. The case was tried before Hon. Peter W. Gray, one of the district judges. The original and amended record cover over five hundred pages of closely-written manuscript. In after ages, when the world shall wonder at trials about a single land grant, large enough for a kingdom, it will be a matter of regret that our reports of such cases are not in extenso. But the Reporter is limited, to an intelligent statement of the narrative of facts.
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Appeal from Galveston. The case was tried before Hon. Peter W. Gray, one of the district judges. The original and amended record cover over five hundred pages of closely-written manuscript. In after ages, when the world shall wonder at trials about a single land grant, large enough for a kingdom, it will be a matter of regret that our reports of such cases are not in extenso. But the Reporter is limited, to an intelligent statement of the narrative of facts. For a history of the case, as developed on the former trials, the learned reader is referred to 3 Texas, 373, and 14 Texas, 69. In these…
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
The law and most of the facts in this case having been under review in this court on two previous occasions, as reported in 3 and 14 Texas, we are' partially relieved from an investigation of some of the points raised in the record by the examination and conclusions arrived at by our predecessors in relation to them. There were a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in each of the trials in the court below, and each of those *558judgments was reversed by this, court, and the cause remanded for further proceedings. Some additional facts were introduced in the district court bearing upon…
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- Portis v. HillTexas Supreme Court · 1855
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