Means v. Robinson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from De Witt. The appellees sued fortlie recovery of a tract of land, and claimed under a conveyance from Charles M. Lockhart to .the plaintiff Solena, executed on the 16th March, 1846. The defendant claimed under a ■conveyance from the said Charles and Iiis mother, Winncy Lockhart, dated May 15, 1837, t.o one Thomas T. Clmmney, and by deed from the said Chum-ney and his wife to the defendant, dated 24th April. 1847. The land in controversy was the upper half of a…
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Appeal from De Witt. The appellees sued fortlie recovery of a tract of land, and claimed under a conveyance from Charles M. Lockhart to .the plaintiff Solena, executed on the 16th March, 1846. The defendant claimed under a ■conveyance from the said Charles and Iiis mother, Winncy Lockhart, dated May 15, 1837, t.o one Thomas T. Clmmney, and by deed from the said Chum-ney and his wife to the defendant, dated 24th April. 1847. The land in controversy was the upper half of a league lying on the Guatla-loupG river, granted to Samuel Lockhart, as a colonist, by the authorities of the State of…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
The first ground was not insisted upon in the argument, and the irrelevancy of the evidence objected to in tire record will appear in the course of the discussion.
The principal questions arise upon the exceptions to the instructions given the jury. These instructions I do not propose to consider separately, but will proceed to state the principles of law applicable to the facts of the case; and-from these it will appear that all the charges were cither intrinsically erroneous, or, if true, they were such only as abstract propositions, unmodified by the facts of the particular…
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