Galan v. Town of Goliad
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Goliad. Tried below before Hon. J. J. Holt. This suit was instituted 30th June, 1856, by Maria Josefa Galan against Pryor Lea, to try title for a piece of land within the town of Goliad, and for damages. May 8th, 1857, defendant, Lea, answered, not guilty of the trespass.
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Error from Goliad. Tried below before Hon. J. J. Holt. This suit was instituted 30th June, 1856, by Maria Josefa Galan against Pryor Lea, to try title for a piece of land within the town of Goliad, and for damages. May 8th, 1857, defendant, Lea, answered, not guilty of the trespass. November 4th, 1857, the common council of the town of Goliad interposed and became a defendant, as landlord or owner of the premises, and answered as follows: 1. Not guilty. 2. Possession under title and color of title, and law of limitation of three years. 3. Eeconvention for cloud of title—charging that…
1Opinion of the CourtLindsay, J.
The charge of the court in this case correctly expounded the law applicable to the facts proved before the .jury. Without written muniments of title, from the proof made by the plaintiffs of a continuous and uninterrupted possession of the land in controversy for a period of more than twenty years, a grant might be presumed. That proof was distinctly made upon the trial, and the plaintiffs, under the ■charge of the court, got the full benefit of the presumption. But it does not necessarily follow, from the establishment of such title in the plaintiffs, that the defendants were precluded from…
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