Herndon v. Vick
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Harris County. The suit was brought by Vick to recover land granted to Vince and claimed by plaintiff through conveyance from his heirs. Defendant claimed through the transfers from Vince to Dickinson and Dickinson to Cole, his ancestor, referred to in the opinion.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Harris County. The suit was brought by Vick to recover land granted to Vince and claimed by plaintiff through conveyance from his heirs. Defendant claimed through the transfers from Vince to Dickinson and Dickinson to Cole, his ancestor, referred to in the opinion. The trial court excluded ■defendant’s evidence of title and instructed a Verdict for plaintiff, and on appeal by defendant this was affirmed by a divided Court of Appeals, and appellant secured writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The following statement of this ease and of the questions presented for determination is taken from the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals:
“Appellee, the defendant in error here, brought suit against a number of persons, including Jeremiah Cole, and also against the unknown heirs of such persons, to establish his title to and recover a tract of four hundred acres of land, a part of the lower half of a league granted to William Vince by the Mexican government, July 21, 1824. The defendants were cited by publication, and none of them answered except the appellant; A. C.…
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