Waggoner v. Daniels

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment wherein the appellee, as plaintiff, recovered from the appellants, as defendants, 308 acres of land lying in Wichita County. His claim rests upon a location made July 20, 1886, by virtue of Confederate certificate number 655, issued August 27, 1881, to Lewis Coleman, for 1280 acres.

The appellants claim by title derived from the heirs of Samuel C. Anderson, to whom a patent was issued August 4, 1877.

The appellee contends that his location was upon a vacant strip situate between the east line of the Samuel Anderson survey and the west lines…