Manchaca v. Field
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Rimes. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Bassett, Special Judge.
This suit was brought on the 22d of December, 1881, by the appellants Manchaca and others as plaintiffs, to recover of the appellees Field and others an undivided half of four leagues of land, part of a ten-league survey granted by the government of Coahuila and Texas to Jose David Sanches. The cause was tried by a jury and resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendants, from which the plaintiffs appeal.
The plaintiffs are the descendants and heirs of Maria Dorotea Sanches, deceased, who was the wife of the grantee, Jose David Sanches. On the 16th of March, 1831,…
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