Ames v. Hubby
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. X. B. Saunders. The case was submitted under rule 47, upon an agreed statement, as follows: 1. Plaintiff and S. C. Page were lawfully married February 14, 1829. 2. Joseph Page, the only issue of said marriage, was bom December 29, 1830. 3. A San Jacinto donation certificate for 640 acres of land was issued to said S. C. Page and his heirs December 15,1838, and was located on the land in controversy in 1847. 4. Plaintiff and…
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Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. X. B. Saunders. The case was submitted under rule 47, upon an agreed statement, as follows: 1. Plaintiff and S. C. Page were lawfully married February 14, 1829. 2. Joseph Page, the only issue of said marriage, was bom December 29, 1830. 3. A San Jacinto donation certificate for 640 acres of land was issued to said S. C. Page and his heirs December 15,1838, and was located on the land in controversy in 1847. 4. Plaintiff and S. C. Page were divorced, by decree of the District Court of Harris county, May, 1840. 5. Plaintiff raised and educated…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The first proposition urged by appellant for the reversal of this judgment is, that the certificate and patent for the land in controversy, which were issued to S. C. Page under the act of December 27, 1837, “granting lands to those who were in the battle of San Jacinto and other battles,” gave to said Page merely a life estate, with a vested remainder in fee to his heir.
*709We, however, are unable, after a critical examination of the statute, to find, any thing, either in the evident object and purpose of its enactment or the language in which it is couched, to warrant…
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