Garvin v. Stover

This was a suit for land in Peters’ Colony, and the controversy was on the priority of settlement, in which the main question was whether the appellee, who was the plaintiff in the Court below, had or not abandoned his first settlement, on which he claimed the right of preference. The law on the question seems to have been correctly given by the Court, under the decisions of this Court in Overton v. Crockett, (12 Tex. R. 509,) and the case of Patton v. Phebe Evans, guardian, decided at the last Term at Austin, and not yet reported, (15 Tex. R. 363;) and, on the evidence, the jury found a…