Gibbons v. Bell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Andrews. This was an action of trespass to try title, brought by appellant against Bell, who claimed to be the vendee of the heir of Charles Carson, the original grantee of the land in controversy.
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Appeal from Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Andrews. This was an action of trespass to try title, brought by appellant against Bell, who claimed to be the vendee of the heir of Charles Carson, the original grantee of the land in controversy. Appellant claimed a locative interest of one third of Carson’s headright, by virtue of a parol contract to locate Carson’s headright certificate, and a subsequent verbal partition of the land between plaintiff’s testator, (Williams) and Charles Carson, the patentee, by which ten hundred and forty-three acres of' Carson’s two thirds of a league…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
The appellants, as the administrator and heirs of William W. Williams, deceased, brought suit, Dovember 17,1870, against the appellees, for the recovery of a tract of land described in then petition, and alleged to be a part of two thirds of a league and labor patented to Charles Carson.
The facts upon which appellants rely to maintain their title, and to recover the land for which they sue, are fully disclosed in their petition. They are in effect that, in the year 1844, said Williams made a parol contract to locate and procure a patent on said Carson’s headlight…
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