Sargent v. Lawrence

KEY,

Associate Justice.—This is an action of trespass to try title, resulting in a verdict and judgment for Harvey Hamilton and other defendants who were heirs of William Hamilton, deceased. The fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, and fourteenth assignments of error read as follows:

“4. The court erred in permitting the defendants to read in evidence, over plaintiffs’ objections, that part of the deposition of L. S. Largent stating that his brother, Thomas Largent, told him, in 1838, that he ‘lived in the southwestern part of the State of Texas, and that he had been with Sam Houston most of the time,…