Ledyard v. Brown
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George W. Smith. This suit was brought on the 8th da.y of March, 1855, by John Henry Brown, Rufus E. Brown, Margaret A. and Russel Brown,, heirs of Henry S. Brown, against James Breeding, C. C. DeWitt, Green Penn, Michael Lomax, James Clemmons, Lewis Schulenberg, L. V. Criswell, James R. Burns, Eliza Gibson, John M. and George W. Short, John H. Meieke and William J. Ledyard, for an undivided half interest of a league of land, to…
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Appeal from Bexar. Tried below before the Hon. George W. Smith. This suit was brought on the 8th da.y of March, 1855, by John Henry Brown, Rufus E. Brown, Margaret A. and Russel Brown,, heirs of Henry S. Brown, against James Breeding, C. C. DeWitt, Green Penn, Michael Lomax, James Clemmons, Lewis Schulenberg, L. V. Criswell, James R. Burns, Eliza Gibson, John M. and George W. Short, John H. Meieke and William J. Ledyard, for an undivided half interest of a league of land, to have their title quieted, and for partition. On the 15th day of April, 1825, Green DeWitt entered into a colony…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The original plaintiffs in this case do not complain of the judgment which was rendered against them in the court below. The controversy is now carried on by some of the original
*403defendants, who claim the land in dispute by adverse and conflicting titles.
The first question presented for our consideration, in disposing of this case, is, to whom was the land in dispute granted by the government? Did Cottle or Richards acquire a superior right by their respective titles ? Cottle’s grant was first in point of time, and is therefore unquestionably superior in right, unless it must be held void,…
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