Kenedy Pasture Co. v. State of Texas
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District in an appeal from Travis County. The suit was brought by the State of Texas for the recovery of land claimed to belong to the public free school fund. Numerous parties were named as defendants, and others became parties by intervention. With this action by the State were consolidated three suits concerning the land between other parties and brought in Cameron and Willacy counties.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District in an appeal from Travis County. The suit was brought by the State of Texas for the recovery of land claimed to belong to the public free school fund. Numerous parties were named as defendants, and others became parties by intervention. With this action by the State were consolidated three suits concerning the land between other parties and brought in Cameron and Willacy counties. From a judgment disposing of the rights of all the various claimants the Kenedy Pasture Co. and more than one hundred other parties appealed, and on…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The suit involves about 30,000 acres of land in Willacy County— formerly a part of Cameron County. There are a great many parties to it and a number of complicated issues.
In the main, it is a controversy between the State and those holding under the State, on the one side, and John G. Kenedy, a large number of Mexicans, some interveners and the Kenedy Pasture Company, a corporation, on the other, concerning the title and the location of what the latter parties claim is the Santa Rosa de Abajo Grant, a grant made by the Mexican Government, and to which all of these parties except the Kenedy…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Clark v. HillsTexas Supreme Court · 1886
- Holmes v. BucknerTexas Supreme Court · 1886
- Coffee v. GrooverSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Steward v. Coleman CountyTexas Supreme Court · 1902
- Davis v. Police Jury of the Parish of ConcordiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Wortham v. WalkerTexas Supreme Court · 1939
- State of Texas v. BalliTexas Supreme Court · 1944
- State v. Valmont PlantationsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1961
- Marshburn v. StewartTexas Supreme Court · 1924
- Marshburn v. StewartTexas Commission of Appeals · 1923
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