Jones v. Powers
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. B. Putman. Appellant, as plaintiff below, brought this suit in the usual form of trespass to try title against B. M. Powers, and his wife Elizabeth Powers, Mrs. M. A. Allen, surviving wife of A. C. Allen, deceased, John Yesey, and his wife Mrs. Addie Yesey, John Allen, W. H. Allen, Sid Bass, and his wife Mrs Leda Bass, appellees, in the district court of Kaufman county, on June 13, 1884, to recover the possession of four…
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Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. J. A. B. Putman. Appellant, as plaintiff below, brought this suit in the usual form of trespass to try title against B. M. Powers, and his wife Elizabeth Powers, Mrs. M. A. Allen, surviving wife of A. C. Allen, deceased, John Yesey, and his wife Mrs. Addie Yesey, John Allen, W. H. Allen, Sid Bass, and his wife Mrs Leda Bass, appellees, in the district court of Kaufman county, on June 13, 1884, to recover the possession of four hundred and thirty-three and one-third acres of land situated in Kaufman county, being a part of the Buth Peckham…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
Lively could not have acquired title under the sale made to satisfy the judgment against J. W. Terrell to any land not embraced in the deed through which Terrell held. If the field notes of the survey sold to Terrell, as found in the record, be the same as embraced in the conveyance to him, and the testimony of the witnesses, Osborn, McCafferty and Lewis, be true as to the actual location of the Terrell survey, as at first established and now actually found, then it is evident that Lively did not acquire title to the land now in controversy; as is it, that C. L.…
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