Word v. Drouthett
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Anderson. Tried below before the Hon. M. H. Bonner. Thos. J. Word brought his second action of trespass to try title on March 11th, 1873, against David Drouthett, sen., Evan Y. Drouthett, and David Drouthett, jr., for 640 acres of the Philip Martin league grant, described by metes and bounds.
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Appeal from Anderson. Tried below before the Hon. M. H. Bonner. Thos. J. Word brought his second action of trespass to try title on March 11th, 1873, against David Drouthett, sen., Evan Y. Drouthett, and David Drouthett, jr., for 640 acres of the Philip Martin league grant, described by metes and bounds. The first suit was instituted February 26,1872, and judgment rendered December, 1872, for the defendants ; and in favor of Evan and David Drouthett, jr., the judgment decreed title in the defendants upon the plea of ten years’ limitation. The defendant, David Drouthett, sr., answered,…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
By the ruling of the court several of the deeds upon which the appellant, who was the *368plaintiff in the District Court, relied to establish his claim of title from the Government to the land in controversy were excluded. If appellees’ objections to these deeds were well taken, appellant has no just ground to complain of the charge of the court or the judgment against him, unless he has shown title under or against parties between whom and appellees there was such privity as relieves him from the necessity of tracing his title back to the Government. This, appellant…
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