Gould v. West
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. J. J. Thornton. This suit was brought in the District Court of Bastrop county on the 16tli of February, 1857, by It. J. Townes, Robert Mills, and David G. Mills, against Uriah Gould and Ann Eliza Gould, his wife, and Edward and James McCarty, defendants. Townes died during the pendency of the suit, and C. S. West, his executor, became a party in his stead.
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Error from Bastrop. Tried below before the Hon. J. J. Thornton. This suit was brought in the District Court of Bastrop county on the 16tli of February, 1857, by It. J. Townes, Robert Mills, and David G. Mills, against Uriah Gould and Ann Eliza Gould, his wife, and Edward and James McCarty, defendants. Townes died during the pendency of the suit, and C. S. West, his executor, became a party in his stead. The plaintiffs alleged in their petition that on the 2d of September, 1839, Jacob G. Lentz executed and delivered to Jesse Haldeman a deed for one half of a league of land in Bostrop county,…
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
It appears from this record that one Jacob G. Lentz, who became a resident Avitli his family in Texas in the year 1832, and so continued till his death, in 1841, Avliich gavrn him a claim under the colonization lavrs of Mexico—a claim guaranteed by Art. XY of the plan of the provisional government, as Avell as by the constitution of the republic and of the *348State—to a headlight of one league of land, as a colonist, sold and conveyed, on the 2d day of September, 1839, to one Jesse Haldeman, one-half of said league, upon which he was then settled, and in possession; and for which he subsequently…
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