Keen v. Featherston
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Stonewall. Tried below before Hon. P. D. Sanders.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNTER, Associate Justice.
This suit of trespass to try title was brought by appellee Featherston on March 24, 1900, to recover from appellant Keen section 170, public free school land in block “D,” Houston & Texas Central Railway Company certificate, in Stonewall County. The defense was not guilty. The cause was tried by a jury, who found a verdict for Featherston upon which judgment was rendered, and therefrom this appeal was taken.
The facts are substantially as follows: M. L. Steele was an actual settler on said section 170, and on December 1, 1898, upon his legal application the…
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